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scatty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scatty has 2 senses
- scatty(s = adj.all) rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained - lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"
- scatty(s = adj.all) absent, absentminded, abstracted - lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scatty, adj. (scattier, scattiest) Brit. colloq. scatterbrained; disorganized.
Derivative
scattily adv. scattiness n.
Etymology
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