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RATTLEPLATE

Portuguese translation: cabeça oca, desmiolado

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English term or phrase:RATTLEPLATE
Portuguese translation:cabeça oca, desmiolado
Entered by: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

11:47 Sep 9, 2014
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / American literature
English term or phrase: RATTLEPLATE
Estou traduzindo um conto e um dos personagens xinga o outro de "rattleplate". Alguma ideia do que seja?
Nilfanjr
Brazil
cabeça oca, desmiolado
Explanation:
Tb. pode ter este sentido...
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 17:11
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2falador, tagarela, falastrão, linguarudo
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
4 +2cabeça oca, desmiolado
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
3fala-barato
Ana Vozone


Discussion entries: 3





  

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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
rattleplate
falador, tagarela, falastrão, linguarudo


Explanation:
O mesmo que Rattlehead:
(n.)
An empty, noisy talker.


Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 18:11
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 447

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mario Freitas: É preciso mais contexto para saber o sentido, mas tagarela parece se encaixar bem.
3 hrs
agree  Stephania Matousek (X)
9 hrs
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
rattleplate
fala-barato


Explanation:
Sugestão, alternativa. PT-PT


    Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rattlebrain
Ana Vozone
Local time: 17:11
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 216
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
rattlepate
cabeça oca, desmiolado


Explanation:
Tb. pode ter este sentido...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 17:11
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 262
Grading comment
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Danik 2014
2 mins
  -> Obrigada, Danik!
agree  Clauwolf
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Claudio!
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