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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A careless, giddy person; a scatterbrain.

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Examples

  • However, she has undoubtedly a mother's love for this poor shatterbrain, and this may weigh against the folly of her marrying an incongruously youthful second husband, and many other follies.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • However, she has undoubtedly a mother's love for this poor shatterbrain, and this may weigh against the folly of her marrying an incongruously youthful second husband, and many other follies.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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