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▪ I. scatty, a.1 U.S. Underworld slang.|ˈskætɪ|
[Of unknown origin; cf. scotty a.]
Bad-tempered.
1909W. H. Davies Beggars xxvi. 205 Nearly all men that live in common lodging-houses..are..more or less short-tempered, or as they say—‘scatty’. 1927Dialect Notes V. 461 Scatty, ill-natured.
▪ II. scatty, a.2 colloq.|ˈskætɪ|
[Prob. f. scatter-brained a. + -y1.]
Of a person: scatter-brained; driven distracted, mad; of a story, etc.: illogical and absurd.
1911J. W. Horsley I Remember xi. 254 Cockney slang was far more familiar to me than most..‘scatty’ for mad. 1934Punch 17 Jan. 74/1 Simpson, who lives opposite, says it [sc. the house] was preying on his mind... ‘Another week and I should have been scatty,’ he explained. 1951M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael ii. i. 83 She is amusing in a breathless, scatty sort of way. 1956J. D. Carr Patrick Butler for Defence iii. 26 If we tell this scatty story about an impossible murder, they won't believe one word we say. 1972‘J. Bell’ Death of Poison-Tongue i. 11 Do you mean you know who the person is who spreads wicked lies about the neighbours? Don't the ones attacked do anything if they know the person? It sounds utterly scatty. 1977News of World 17 Apr. 16/7 My scatty friend..had later gone into the butchers and loudly asked for a shepherd to make a pie with. 1980J. McClure Blood of Englishman i. 11 The scatty receptionist had looked at him with twinkling eyes. |