rattlecap

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Noun

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rattlecap (plural rattlecaps)

  1. (slang, obsolete) An unsteady, volatile person.
    • 1897, Abby Hopper Gibbons, Sarah Hopper Emerson, Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons, page 81:
      I should write oftener but that my sister Sarah has become such a rattlecap, that she leaves me not a particle of news. Upon my word, she is the greatest talker extant. I am a perfect silence compared with her.
    • 1970, Georgette Heyer, Charity Girl:
      He regarded Simon with indulgent fondness, having known him from the cradle, but he knew that Simon was inclined to be a rattlecap; […]

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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