RATTLE-HEADED ADJ. empty-headed, stupid; foolish and noisy; talkative, chattering, giddy, flighty, hare-brained ...1647 ETYMOLOGY from rattle (n. a rapid succession of short, sharp, percussive sounds) + -headed FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1647 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The Rattle-headed Ladyes being Assembled at Kates in the Covent-Garden, and having spent some time in choosing of their Speaker, it having been objected against the Lady Duches that shee had used beating up of quatters..." From: The Parliament of Ladies. Or Divers Remarkable Passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled - Henry Neville
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