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Definition of Scatty

1. Adjective. Lacking sense or discretion. "How rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"

2. Adjective. Lost in thought; showing preoccupation. "The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"

Definition of Scatty

1. Adjective. (slang British) Scatterbrained; flighty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scatty

1. crazy [adj -TIER, -TIEST] - See also: crazy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scatty

scatterlings scatterometer scatterometers scatterometric scatterometry scatterplot scatterplots scatters scattershot scattery

scattier scattiest scatting scattings scatts scatty (current term) scatula scaturience scaturiences scaturient

scaturiginous scaud scauded scauding scauds scaup scaup duck scauped scauper scaupers

Literary usage of Scatty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"scatty, vol i, 1879, p. 169). (W. Ra) of the Romans (d. 1256), and the tombe of Jan and 'Cornells Evertsen, two naval heroes who fell in the war against ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... poetry, scatty ; mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep, moral grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ..."

3. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce (1873)
"... were scatty the Coelian, Aventi^ The Rome of to-day is no more like the city of Rienzi than she is to the city of Trajan; just as the Roman church of ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Cresswell Cresswell (1824)
"In either case the plaintiffs (a) 1 Coote'i a. Laws, 406. (4) 1 Eip. NPC HO. (c) 1 Esp. 170. («<) I Bos. £ FuL. 44. (e) TT.R.391. . (/) 2 Sail $ scatty, IS. ..."

5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... -scatty; here, on the northern bank, we lay-to for the night, under shelter of a lofty umbrageous forest.95 We passed the 2oth on the same spot, ..."

6. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... -scatty; here, on the northern bank, we lay-to for the night, under shelter of a lofty umbrageous forest.9* We passed the 2oth on the same spot, ..."

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