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Scatty is a British, informal word for someone who often forgets or loses things because they are not being sensible or practical — the same neighbourhood of meaning as . A scatty person mixes up days, cannot find the bus pass, walks into a room and cannot remember why. It is usually said with a smile, not as a hard insult. You hear it from British speakers more than from American ones; Americans nearly always say , or something like ditzy, instead. It can sound a little or old-fashioned — a parent, a novel, a chat — not a word for a school report. Though actually, it is about daily , not about a sharp tongue. That other word is catty, and it is not this one.
迷糊、丟三落四(英式口語,意思近 scatterbrained)
組成Attested as scat + -y, with scat as “a brief shower of rain.” I am sure of the forgetful meaning in use; I will not pretend that rain-shower story is a simple picture of this sense, so I am not hanging a family tree on it.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scattyadj詞源 1
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slangScatterbrained; flighty.
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slangMessy; filthy; disgusting.
scattynoun詞源 2
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A fish of species Scatophagus tetracanthus.
scattyadj詞源 3
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dialectalShowery; rainy.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。