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rattlehead

noun

Etymology

From rattle + head.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as rattlehead — “rattle + head”

Definitions

  1. Someone who makes empty or noisy conversation

    Someone who makes empty or noisy conversation; a chatterer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rattlehead. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA