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English
Etymology
From scatter + brain.
Pronunciation
Noun
scatterbrain (plural scatterbrains)
- A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town:Vivian is so VERY late! Where has that scatterbrain been all this time?
Translations
flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Catalan: capsigrany (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 馬大哈 / 马大哈 (zh) (mǎdàhā)
- Czech: popleta (cs) m
- Dutch: warhoofd (nl) n, wargeest (nl) m
- Finnish: sähläri (fi), hösöttäjä, häsy
- French: tête de linotte (fr) f, étourdi (fr) m, étourdie (fr) f
- German: Wirrkopf (de) m, Schussel (de) m
- Irish: éagann m, uaill f
- Italian: sbadato (it) m
- Japanese: おっちょこちょい (ja) (otchokochoi)
- Macedonian: заве́анко m (zavéanko), ве́трогон m (vétrogon), забора́веник m (zaborávenik) (forgetful person)
- Maori: hinengaro makere
- Polish: roztrzepaniec m, wypłosz m
- Portuguese: distraído (pt)
- Russian: рази́ня (ru) m or f (razínja), растя́па (ru) m or f (rastjápa), раззя́ва (ru) m or f (razzjáva), ротозе́й (ru) m (rotozéj), ротозе́йка (ru) f (rotozéjka)
- Spanish: chorlito m, alocado (es) m, atolondrado (es) m, pajarón (es) m
- Swedish: virrpanna (sv), tankspridd person
- Welsh: penchwiban (cy) m or f, hurtyn m, hurten f
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