scatterbrain, butterfingers
çekim: çoğul Schusseln · tamlayan Schussels
köken: Probably cognate to German Schusser (“clacker, bullet; wound”), as if by surface analysis, Schuss (“shot”) + -el, literally one who is shot, amorous verschossen (“have a crush; miss a shot”). Maybe related to schudeln, compare hudeln. Older dictionaries gloss this specifically feminine, mismatching the supposed derivation which requires neuter gender, matching Ripuarian neuter inflection on…
aile: schusselig
scatterbrain, absent-minded individual
çekim: çoğul étourdis
köken: From étourdir.
🔊 Hier soir deux inconnus et ce matin sur l'avenue / Deux amoureux tout étourdis par la longue nuit
zany, crazy · madcap, mad
köken: From alocar.
aile: alocadamente
distracted · careless, thoughtless · scatterbrained
çekim: çoğul sbadati
eş: assente, con la testa fra le nuvole, disattento, distratto, imprudente, inavveduto
köken: From s- + badato.
aile: sbadatamente
scatterbrain
çekim: çoğul wargeesten
eş: warkop, warhoofd, dwaalgeest, chaoot, opruier, rustverstoorder
köken: From war (“chaos; confusion”) + geest (“spirit; ghost”).
aile: wargeestig
distracted, absent-minded
köken: Past participle of distrair (“to distract”).
scatterbrained, careless, forgetful, clumsy
someone confused (and disorganized), a scatterbrain
çekim: çoğul virrpannor · tamlayan virrpannas
köken: From virrig (“confused”) + panna (“forehead”).
scatterbrain (absent-minded person)
çekim: çoğul roztrzepańcy · tamlayan roztrzepańca
köken: Etymology tree Polish roztrzepać Old Polish -anie Polish -anie Polish -ec Polish -aniec Polish roztrzepaniec From roztrzepać + -aniec.
scatterbrain · muddler
çekim: çoğul popletové · tamlayan poplety
eş: moták, zmatkář, šmodrcha, popletenec, pomatenec, ňouma
köken: Deverbal from poplést.
woodchat shrike · scatterbrain
çekim: çoğul capsigranys
köken: Perhaps from earlier and dialectal capserigany, from cap (“head”) and Latin sericaneus (“silken”) from sericus.
scatterbrain, blockhead
çekim: çoğul hurtynnod
köken: hurt (“obtuse, silly”) + -en
vanity, pride · wail; howl, yell · lightheaded, scatterbrained, person; vain person
çekim: çoğul uailleacha · tamlayan uaille
köken: From Old Irish úall, from Proto-Celtic *ouxslā, from *ouxselos (“high”).