scatty
Americanadjective
adjective
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empty-headed, frivolous, or thoughtless
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distracted (esp in drive someone scatty )
Other Word Forms
- scattily adverb
- scattiness noun
Etymology
Origin of scatty
1910–15; apparently scatt(erbrain) + -y 1
Example Sentences
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I was expecting Andy, because of his fame, to be pretentious, but he was actually quite funny and scatty.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2018
She strikes me as a woman who gets things done, steelier than the quirky, slightly scatty figure she has often portrayed on screen.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2018
Big Pig is loyal, sensible and stately, whereas Little Pig is scatty, selfish and lazy.
From Economist • Jul. 27, 2017
Renee Zellweger plays Helen Fielding's perennial singleton for the third time in the film, which this time sees its scatty heroine become pregnant.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2016
Then plan after plan started leaping through my head, like a family of scatty rabbits.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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