scatty
IPA: skˈæti
noun
- A fish of species Scatophagus tetracanthus.
adjective
- (slang, Britain) Scatterbrained; flighty.
- (UK, Liverpool, slang) messy; filthy; disgusting
- (dialect) showery; rainy
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Examples of "scatty" in Sentences
- She's impulsive and emotional, scatty, hello darling, mwah mwah, and dressed all wrong.
- They are excellent, and so am I when I am not lazy, dumb, prejudiced, boring, offensive, and scatty.
- Everyone in the building knew whose car that was and now someone who lived near me knew that I was “scatty.”
- Janet turned up fashionably late and scatty as usual, almost leaving one of her troupe of children in the back of the cab.
- Instead of an evil stepmother, as the Grimms have it, the children have a loving but scatty mother and a caring but drunken father.
- This scatty mish-mash of a summer, in which at its height England will have gone almost three months without a Test match, has lost its shape.
- "I find the millennial beat of the water, which has flowed here for thousands of years, a good antidote to the scatty world I live in," he says.
- Young said she had looked back on her somewhat scatty notes from the judging process and words such as "extraordinary, special, striking, moving".
- A passing insistence on detail – every meal is described, and even the trials of travelling Ryanair get a mention – helps chain a sometimes scatty book to earth.
- Anyone who has seen Joan Rivers in action will recognise the characters as no-nonsense Beverly (Chaffin) and scatty Ronna (Denbo) wrest control of our love lives.
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