Crossword clues for scatty
Wiktionary
a. (context slang British English) scatterbrained; flighty.
WordNet
adj. lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott [syn: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained]
lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted]
Usage examples of "scatty".
She was an elderly, rather scatty, quite ordinary person, physically not very strong, mentally not nearly as alert as she used to be.
The third sister is more scatty, more localized, does not seem to have known the girl as well.
Campion glanced at the mellowed plaster and his mental picture of Scatty Williams grew from the merely interesting to the fantastic.
He and Scatty are going into partnership if ever you get tired of him.
And, of course, the noise was tremendous when Scatty and Lugg got there.
Lugg and Scatty were getting so excited that I shut them up in the garage and bolted the door.
Aunt Hatt took charge of him with a brisk efficiency that was tremendously comforting, and Guffy left him in her care when with Eager-Wright and young Hal they set out to search the house for Amanda and those unlucky watchdogs, Lugg and Scatty Williams.
Amanda, bolt upright and impudent, sat at the wheel, with Scatty, huddled and a little scared, beside her.
He wandered over to the window and looked down, to be rewarded by the sight of Scatty Williams returning with the ancient brougham.
In foundation it consisted of the old ferry punt in which Amanda and Scatty got about in flood time, but its appearance had been considerably changed by a superstructure of light leafy branches and gorse, so that its real character was completely hidden, and while there was sufficient room for four or five people to crouch inside, to the casual observer it resembled nothing so much as a floating bush or a tangle of brushwood which had come adrift from some pile on the bank.
Great Keepsake, where we wait for Scatty and Lugg, who will come by the fens.
After the fourth time get Scatty down, and as soon as the fifth is over smash a couple of valves and clear out.
The sergeant and a patrol have just brought in those two prize idiots, Scatty and Lugg.
Lugg, lugubrious and sorry for himself, was sitting on the doorstep of the mill with Scatty at his side, while their captors stood round, amused and tolerant.
You see, when Hal comes into the estate Scatty and I are going to have a thin time.