单词 | bird-witted |
释义 | > as lemmasbird-witted bird-witted adj. easily distracted; foolish, scatterbrained, bird-brained. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective] idlec825 giddyc1000 volage?a1366 apec1370 foolisha1382 vain1390 idleful1483 volageous1487 glaikit1488 cock-brained1530 apish1532 empty1550 sillyc1555 frivolous?1563 tickle-headed1583 light-braineda1593 frothy1593 owlish1596 bird-witted1605 empty-headed1614 idle-headed1614 empty-pateda1628 marmosetical1630 grollish1637 feather-headed1647 nonsense1647 whirl-crowned1648 feather-brained1649 swimmering1650 soft-pated1651 weather-headeda1652 shuttlecock1660 drum-headed1664 chicken-brained1678 halokit1724 desipient1727 shatter-pated1727 scattered-brained1747 light-thoughted1777 scatter-brained1804 shandy-pated1806 hellicat1815 feather-pated1819 inane1819 weather-brained1826 bubble-headed1827 tomfoolish1838 bird-brained1892 tottle1894 fluffy1898 scatty1911 wandery1912 scattery1924 twitterpated1943 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ss2 If a Child be Bird-witted, that is, hath not the facultie of attention, the Mathematiques giueth a remedy thereunto. View more context for this quotation 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 360 [He] proved..but a bird-witted man. 1866 W. Collins Armadale I. 81 ‘Only think! we laid the first planks of the deck, the day before yesterday,’ said Allan, flying off to the new subject in his usual bird-witted way. 1913 G. W. E. Russell Half-lengths v. 118 ‘Tuppence, you're bird-witted,’ was the remonstrant outcry of the impatient Tutor when the boy's large eyes wandered through the pupil-room window. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic iv. 26 A masterpiece of novel..that had been notoriously mishandled for years by..a series of bird-witted editors. < as lemmas |
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