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scatty

uncommon slang uk

adjective

1.

lacking sense or discretion

  • “his rattlebrained crackpot ideas”
  • “how rattlepated I am! I”
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2.

lost in thought; showing preoccupation

  • “an absent stare”
  • “an absentminded professer”
  • “the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence”
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Origin

From scat + -y; see scat (“brief shower of rain”).

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