Word of the Day: CHUCKLE-PATE

ETYMOLOGY
from chuckle + pate (the head)

EXAMPLE
“…At the end, says the chief, in dispersing the poison.
“Come, come, subscribe, ’tis to carry the cause on,
Down with your cash, all I ask is a penny;”
And the pence were put down by the chucklepate many.
We genii, you know, in a moment detected
The laugh-in-the-sleeve of the rogues who collected,
And followed unseen, ’till we saw them all seated,
Full of hopes of the spoil, but these hopes were soon cheated,
For among them swooped, and away in a minute. …”

From: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Volume III. April – September, 1820
The Building of the Palace of the Lamp.