Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Giddy and talkative; foolish.
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- adjective
Foolish
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Examples
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I just wanted Laella to know because she always stays calm, no matter what, and I get rattlebrained, so maybe she could think of something when I couldn't.
The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989
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Through a rattlebrained friend of theirs, one Nancy Spencer, they agree to take a boy from the Hopeton
Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden
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Frankly, that's why the scheme looks rattlebrained to me.
Rocket Ship Galileo Heinlein, Robert A. 1947
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Victoria: An aspiring attorney, Victoria is Shallon’s other roommate, whose eccentric ways provide a source of rattlebrained comic relief.
Hot Girls And Candy 2010
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"But I am afraid you are glorifying two rattlebrained chaps who should be in a home for imbeciles instead of in the castle their audacity might have blighted.
Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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