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单词 shatter-brain
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shatter-brainn.

Etymology: See shatter v. Compare scatter-brain n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshatter-brain.
A person of ‘cracked’ brain or wandering wits; a giddy, thoughtless person.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person
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shatter-wit1775
scatter-brain1790
flutter-pate1894
Jack-o'-wisp1896
ditz1984
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 327 Sharks, Shagrags, Shatter-brains.
1788 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 448 A petit-maitre,..or a shatter-brain of any kind.
1853 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 8 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. i. 48 However, she has undoubtedly a mother's love for this poor shatterbrain.
attributive.1837 M. R. Mitford Country Stories 11 A shatter~brain boy who did not know a violet from a nettle.1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Frogs Introd. p. cxii A sort of shatterbrain commingling of right and wrong in his intellect.

Derivatives

ˈshatter-brained adj. crazy, light-witted; giddy, thoughtless. Cf. scatter-brained adj. at scatter-brain n. Derivatives.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective]
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unstudious1663
flirtishc1665
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shatter-headedc1686
corky-brained1699
flea-lugged1724
halokit1724
shatter-brained1727
scattered-brained1747
shatter-witted1775
flippant1791
butterfly-brained1796
scatter-brained1804
gossamer1806
shandy-pated1806
shattery1820
barmy-brained1823
papilionaceous1832
flirtatious1834
flirty1840
Micawberish1859
scatterheaded1867
flibberty-gibberty1879
thistledown1897
shatter-pated1901
trivial-minded1905
scattery1924
fizgig1928
ditzy1979
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > scatter-brained
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shatter-pated1901
scatty1911
twitterpated1943
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Shatter-brain'd, Shatter-pated, scarce Compos Mentis, crazy-headed, hare-brain'd, confused, acting without Thought, &c.
1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. I 10 St. Ignatius Loyola, that errant shatter-brain'd visionary Fanatic.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 483 The old, shatterbrained hag who is endeavouring to frighten and murder the people of England.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. xii. 285 This shatter-brained peer was, in other respects, a handsome accomplished man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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