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ˈrattle-head ? Obs.
1. = rattle-brain 1.
1641Laud Wks. (1857) VI. 163 If this world go on, the dear sisters of these rattleheads will no longer keep silence in their churches or conventicles. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 130 Many rattle-heads, as well as they, did bestir them to gain-stand this match. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 126 No Cautions of a Matron, old and sage, Young Rattlehead to Prudence could engage. 1788Stevens Adv. Speculist II. 151 He was such a rattle-head, so inconstant and so unthinking, that he affronted his best friends.
†2. spec. A Cavalier (in contrast to a round-head). Obs.
Perh. orig. in the same sense as prec., but commonly used in reference to the long hair worn by the Cavaliers.
1641Dial. betw. Rattle-head & Round-head 6 To speak my minde of Rattleheads, Roundheads, Loggerheads, etc. 1643Prynne (title) A Gagge for Long Haired Rattle Heads who revile all civill Round Heads. 1649Roxbury Ch. Rec. in Coffin Hist. Newbury (1845), Locks and long haire (now in England called rattle heads).
So ˈrattle-headed a. = rattle-brained.
1647Parlt. Ladies 3 The Rattle-headed Ladyes being Assembled at Kates in the Covent-Garden. 1705Rowe Biter iii. i, These Rattle-headed Young Fellows don't know how to value a discreet elderly Passion. 1864T. Nichols 40 Yrs. Amer. Life II. xiii. 224 As lively, sparkling, amiable, and rattle-headed as she knew how to be. |