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Definition of Rattlebrained
1. Adjective. Lacking sense or discretion. "How rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"
Definition of Rattlebrained
1. a. Giddy; rattle-headed.
Definition of Rattlebrained
1. Adjective. Foolish ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rattlebrained
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattlebrained
Literary usage of Rattlebrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the English Comic Writers by William Hazlitt (1845)
"... which has since become a standard character, and which represents the
warm-hearted, rattlebrained, thoughtless, high-spirited young fellow, ..."
2. Lectures on the English Comic Writers by William Hazlitt (1845)
"... which has since become a standard character, and which represents the
warm-hearted, rattlebrained, thoughtless, high-spirited young fellow, ..."
3. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1851)
"Charley was a wild, wayward fellow, and a genius ; and though I would rarely join
in any of his mischief and rattlebrained rascality, except what I deemed ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"Will you play dunce, who were sucn a rattlebrained lad, and that, too, when your
old school-fellow comes to greet you in your middle-age and prosperity ..."
5. The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald, Elizabeth Inchbald (1808)
"You are a rare fellow, indeed, to talk of managing a wife A debauched bachelor
a rattlebrained, rioting fellow who have picked up your common-place notions ..."
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