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单词 scattery
释义 scattery, a.|ˈskætərɪ|
[f. scatter v. + -y.]
a. Characterized by scattering; scattered; sparse; straggling.
1816L. Hunt Rimini i. 4 And the far ships, lifting their sails of white Like joyful hands, come up with scattery light,..true to the wished-for day.1847Ld. Jeffrey Let. 20 Apr. in Ld. Cockburn Life (1852) II. 413 The village is very small and scattery, and all mixed up with trees.1877Blackmore Erema xvi. (1880) 96 Not to benefit the world in general, in a large and scattery way—but to right the wrong of my own house.
b. Scatter-brained. rare.
1924J. Galsworthy White Monkey i. v. 33 The scattery enthusiasm of the sucking publisher.1928Swan Song iii. i. 226 He himself knew how to wait, but did this modern young man, so feather-pated and scattery?
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