rattlepate
/rat-l-peyt/US // ˈræt lˌpeɪt //
拨浪鼓,拨浪鼓式,拨云见日,拨浪鼓式的
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a rattlebrain.
Examples
Mrs. Crabtree's girl had married the third son of Sir Reginald Rattlepate.
But whod ever have expected that rattlepate to think out everything as he has done?
Lewis regarded him as a conceited rattlepate, whose sole talent lay in the art of making money—whose glory was his purse.
She was unquestionably what she had confessed herself to be—a rattlepate.
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