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scattery

adj

Etymology

From scatter + -y.

  1. derived from *skey-✻
  2. inherited from *sceaterian✻
  3. inherited from scateren
  4. suffixed as scattery — “scatter + y”

Definitions

  1. Tending to scatter or be scattered

    Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.

    • For one thing, the speakers are writers, their subject literature, and art is proverbially long, and life short and scattery.

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