Meanings
- pluralplural of scatterbrain
- A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
The mind that is fed upon a diet of morning and evening newspapers, mainly or solely, will become flabby, uncertain, illogical, frivolous, and, in fact, little better than a scatterbrains.
1900, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, A book for all readers
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