scatty
Americanadjective
adjective
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empty-headed, frivolous, or thoughtless
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distracted (esp in drive someone scatty )
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Etymology
Origin of scatty
1910–15; apparently scatt(erbrain) + -y 1
Example Sentences
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"I, quite frankly, was probably the most scatty teenager you've ever known," says Stacey.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
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
Big Pig is loyal, sensible and stately, whereas Little Pig is scatty, selfish and lazy.
From Economist ● Jul. 27, 2017
Having played a scatty blonde in the latter TV show, Applegate passed - allowing Witherspoon to land the role for which she would be nominated for a Golden Globe.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2017
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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