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scatterbrain

[skat-er-breyn] / ˈskæt ərˌbreɪn /




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The recommendation says she was "a bit scatters" - a scatterbrain, in other words.

From BBC Oct. 13, 2023

This is my voice, this is how I act, this is my scatterbrain behavior.

From Slate Jan. 3, 2018

The youngest is something of a scatterbrain, picking up a piece of string here, a dead bird there.

From New York Times Dec. 2, 2016

Our personalities meet in the middle with a balance of caprice and control: We play against type when it comes to writing, as the poet is the taskmaster and the military officer is the scatterbrain.

From Salon May 25, 2015

She struck me as so comical, that silly little scatterbrain!

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Pick something for the Surge to focus on, you scatterbrains.

From Slate Sep. 24, 2022

"Is it not extraordinary, in a country like ours, educated, prosperous, and fairly happy, that doctrines of this kind should be taught by learned men as well as scatterbrains?"

From Time Magazine Archive

It was by my contrivance, incorrigible scatterbrains, that Anselmo undertook this desirable purchase; she should have been placed into my own hands, but your cursed officiousness knocks everything on the head again.

From The Blunderer by Molière

A weeding-out takes place in my crowd of scatterbrains.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

My young scatterbrains find it hard to understand that the beast which was so precious two days ago is now of no value whatever.

From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos




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