Rattlepated

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rattle-pated \Rat"tle-pat`ed\, a.
     Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." --W. Irving.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  rattlepated
       adj : lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot
             ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I
             came for"- Glenway Westcott [syn: {rattlebrained}, {scatterbrained},
              {scatty}]