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单词 rattlebrain
释义

rattlebrain

English

Etymology

rattle + brain

Noun

rattlebrain (plural rattlebrains)

  1. A rattlebrained person.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13,
      a genial young fellow enough to look at, and something of a rattlebrain, to all appearance.
    • 1962, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Slave, translated by Isaac Bachevis Singer and Cecil Hemley, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985, Part III, p. 297,
      My mother, peace be with her, when she called me a rattlebrain, was right.
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