rattle-skull

Updated: May 29, 2025

I am as empty-pated a rattle-skull, as ever was turned raw into one of her Majesty's regiments and that's saying a good deal, I can tell you. But this dear creature here loves a bit of romance in her heart. What's o'clock?"

Various - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850.