"scatty" in the adjective sense
1. rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty
lacking sense or discretion
"his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"
"how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott
2. absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty
lost in thought showing preoccupation
"an absent stare"
"an absentminded professor"
"the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
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