adj
Meaning 1
Scatterbrained; flighty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Britain, Ireland, slang
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scatty
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rhymes with -æti
adj
Meaning 2
Messy; filthy; disgusting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
Qualifier: Liverpool
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adj
Meaning 3
Showery; rainy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 4
A fish of species Scatophagus tetracanthus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
lost in thought; showing preoccupation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an absent stare
- an absentminded professor
- the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
lacking sense or discretion- Glenway Westcott
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
- how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From scat + -y; see scat (“brief shower of rain”).
Shortening of Scatophagus, the genus name
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: шантав (šantav) — scatterbrained
- Czech: praštěný — scatterbrained
- Czech: potrhlý — scatterbrained
- Czech: trhlý — scatterbrained
- Galician: chalado — scatterbrained
- Galician: tarabelo — scatterbrained
- Galician: turuleque — scatterbrained
- Russian: чо́кнутый (čoknutyj) — scatterbrained