scatty
/ˈskati
/adjective (scattier, scattiest) British informal
Absent-minded and disorganized: Julia sees herself as vaguely uneducated and slightly scatty...
- As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me, a very close second to Willow to be quite honest.
- A scatty young woman decides to bring her family together by cooking Thanksgiving dinner in her tiny New York apartment.
- His scatty style might seem to some carefully contrived, but through the chinks of his eccentricity something else comes through: genuine sweetness and innocence.
Derivatives
scattily
- It has an improvisatory feel rarely found in western, sit-up-straight restaurants, a scattily panicked vitality as bracing as its rough peasant dishes.
- The teacher taking detention was scattily looking through his own teaching folders for the list of students that should have been in attendance that afternoon.
- Though the book lacks varnish - it's more scattily anecdotal than coherent - it's full of intimate glimpses of the sort that no biographer can reproduce.
scattiness
- There is a certain scattiness, as well as scruple, in the authors' methods.
- The enlightening thing about Gidden's tract is its scattiness, historical amnesia and implicit authoritarianism.
- She seems very similar to me in character so it amuses me to see bits of me in her like my scattiness.
Origin
Early 20th century: abbreviation of scatterbrained.