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What (who) is SCATTY - definition
scatty
¦ adjective (scattier, scattiest) Brit. informal absent-minded and disorganized.
Derivatives
scattily adverb
scattiness noun
Origin
early 20th cent.: abbrev. of scatterbrained.
scatty
If you describe someone as scatty, you mean that they often forget things or behave in a silly way. (BRIT INFORMAL)
Her mother is scatty and absent-minded.
= scatterbrained
ADJ
scatty
Crazy, freaky, grubby. Usually used to describe punks or skinheads.
Those scatty kids are protesting something again.
Those scatty kids are protesting something again.
Examples of use of SCATTY
1. She could be quite scatty, but her brain was extraordinary.
2. They are very calm, they aren‘t scatty, and generally they are very friendly.
3. One recalls an Observer piece by Kimberley Fortier, in her pre–Blunkett era, boasting about how she begged hubby for an 11,000 handbag – the dear, scatty spendthrift!
4. Lecturers have lost out in an age which still sees them as underworked, scatty dons indulged with long holidays, when modern university life is nothing like that and other public sector workers such as teachers and doctors have done well.
5. Women better at finding the car keys than their scatty spouses Fathers are more likely to drink and drive than mothers, with 8 per cent of children commenting on their father getting behind the wheel after consuming alcohol compared with 2 per cent saying the same about their mother.