SCATTY

absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty

(adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation; “an absent stare”; “an absentminded professor”; “the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence”

rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty

(adjective) lacking sense or discretion; “his rattlebrained crackpot ideas”; “how rattlepated I am! I’ve forgotten what I came for”- Glenway Westcott

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

scatty (comparative scattier, superlative scattiest)

(slang, British) Scatterbrained; flighty.

Etymology 2

Adjective

scatty

(dialect) showery; rainy

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

20 April 2024

MULTIPHASE

(adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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