What is "rattlepate"

Usage examples of "rattlepate".

I suppose it is partially because people recall that she was once betrothed to him and broke it off to wed that gay rattlepate who died so inconsiderately and left her penniless.

Yet still do these shine as veritable Magi in comparison to the feckless rattlepates who adorn the pantheon of Sfinctrian necromancy.

She did not think she could mention this to the randy rattlepates, however, nor could she complain to her aunt, who would only find Juneclaire at fault for her wanton looks.

They are such rattlepates they would tell the whole world, and what a paper-skull I should look.

I looked at the once lively, rattlepated, humorous little doctor—associated in my remembrance with the perpetration of incorrigible social indiscretions and innumerable boyish jokes—and I saw nothing left of his former self, but the old tendency to vulgar smartness in his dress.