"scotty cooley"

[David Robertson]

A small note in addition: One of the more entertaining dictionaries ever
printed, "British Self-Taught: With Comments in American" has an entry for
what it labels as a slang adjective, 'scatty'.  It says this means
approximately 'whacky' in American, and 'the closest Americans come to
scatty is scatterbrained.'

This book was written by Norman W. Schur, published in New York by
Macmillan (1973).

--Dave R


On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:32:44 -0500, David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
wrote:

>Then there's the word "scatty".
>
>--Dave R

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