Reverse Dictionary: FLIGHTY

ADJECTIVES
► BARMY flighty; passionate; irascible → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BARMY-BRAINED foolish, giddy, flighty; light-headed → 1824 Sc.
► BEE-HEADED harebrained, flighty, excitable; light-headed, unsettled → 1879
► CAPER-WITTED flighty, of frivolous or unsteady mind → 1692
► COCK-BRAINED having little judgement; foolish and light-headed; silly, giddy, rash, harebrained, thoughtless, flighty → 1530
► COCKLE-BRAINED whimsical, eccentric, flighty, fanciful; foolish, chuckle-headed → 1824 Sc.
► DITSY ► DITZY giddy; unaware; flighty → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► DIZZY foolish; silly; witless; flighty → 1942 colloq. (Bk.)
► FEATHER-MINDED flighty, capricious → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FLIBBERTY flighty, silly → 1954 Amer. dial.
► FLISKY fidgety; unsettled; light-headed; whimsical; frolicsome; flighty; lively: of a horse: restive, frisky → 1807 Sc.
► FLITTERY flighty → 1966 Amer. dial.
► FLYAWAY frivolous or flighty; giddy
► GARISH wanting in self-restraint; flighty → 1650 obs.
► GIGGISH lively, flighty, wanton, trifling, silly, foolish → 1523
► HAIRY flighty, light-headed → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HELLICAT giddy, light-headed, flighty, half-witted → 1815 Sc.
► HEN-HEADED brainless, flighty, capricious; foolish, silly, witless → 19C Eng. & Amer. dial.
► HEN-MINDED brainless, flighty, capricious; foolish, silly, witless → 1892 Amer. dial.
► HIGHTY-TIGHTY flighty, whimsically inclined → 19C Eng. dial.
► KECKLE weak in the stomach; flighty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LIGHTSOME flighty, frivolous → 1533
► LOUP-THE-DIKE giddy, flighty → 1823 Sc.
► MADDLING foolish, silly, flighty; confused → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOONISH influenced by the moon; acting as if under the moon’s influence;  changeable, fickle, flighty, whimsical, capricious, variable → c1407 obs.
► RANDOM impulsive, uncontrolled, flighty, careless → 1880 Eng. dial.
► RATTLE-BRAINED talkative; flighty; harebrained; silly; stupid; prone to confusion; foolish; unable to concentrate → 1868 Sc.
► RATTLE-HEADED empty-headed, stupid; foolish and noisy; talkative, chattering, giddy, flighty, hare-brained → 1647
​► RATTLE-NODDLED characterized by foolish noisy levity of character or conduct; giddy, harebrained, flighty, noisy, wild; rattle-headed → 1661 obs.
► RATTLE-SCULLED talkative, flighty, harebrained → 1883 Sc.
► RUNNING rapidly changing from one thought or interest to another; easily distracted; flighty, changeable; active, lively → c1449 obs.
► SHITTLE-WITTED fickle, flighty, unstable, unsteady → 1448 obs.
► SKIP-BRAIN flighty, harebrained → 1603
► SKIPJACK flighty, affected, foppish → 1598
► SKIPJACKLY flighty, affected, foppish → 1674
► TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish → 1846 Eng. dial.
► TWITTERPATED foolish, silly; flighty, scatterbrained → 1943 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
► WHISKY-FRISKY flighty → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

ADVERBS
► GARISHLY with lack of self-restraint; flightily → 1606 obs.

NOUNS
► GARISHNESS want of self-restraint; flightiness → 1649 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► AIRHEAD a flighty, irresponsible person → 1971 sl.
► BARM-HEAD a man of confused thought; one of flighty and excited mind → 1865 Eng. dial.
► BARMY-FROTH a flighty, empty-headed fellow; a simpleton → 1599
► BEE-IN-THE-BONNET an eccentric; a flighty person; a foolish person → 1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DEMIREP, DEMY REP a flighty woman; a woman of doubtful character → E18
► DITS ► DITZ a silly, scatterbrained, or flighty woman → 1982 US sl.
► FANTAST a visionary, a dreamer; a flighty, impulsive person → 1588
► FANTIGUE a flighty, flirting girl → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FLIBBERTIGIBBET a chattering or gossiping person; a flighty, restless, or frivolous woman; a scatterbrain; an oaf → 1549
► FLING-BRAIN a person of flighty and hasty character → 1563 obs.
► FLIP-FLAP a flighty woman → 18C Brit. sl.
► FLIPPETY-SNIPPET a silly, light-headed, flighty person → 1949 Amer. dial.
► FLIPPY-WIPPET a silly, light-headed, flighty person → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FLIRTIGIG a giddy, flighty girl; a flirtatious and wanton young woman → 1683 Eng. dial. & colloq.
► FLISKMAHOY a giddy, ostentatious person; a flighty girl; a giddy, gawky girl; a woman who gives herself airs → 1816 Sc.
► FLUTTER-PATE a flighty or light-headed person → 1894
► FLYAWAY a person who is frivolous or flighty → 1804
► GIG a flighty, giddy, or frivolous girl → c1225 obs.
► GIGGLEBY a silly, flighty or giggling girl → 1903 Sc.
► GIGLOT a merry, light-hearted, laughing, romping girl; a giddy, flighty, silly, thoughtless girl → a1340
► GIG-MA-LEERIE a silly, flighty boy or girl → 1832 Sc. obs.
► GILLEN-FLIRT a flighty girl; a wanton → 1886 obs. (Bk.)
► GILLET a giddy or flighty young woman; a jilt; sometimes a familiar or contemptuous term for a girl or young woman, a wench → 1750 Sc.
► GILLIAN-FLURT a proud, vain woman; a flighty girl; a wanton → 1593 
► GOOSECAP a silly fellow; a stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; an idiot; a giddy or flighty young girl → 1589 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
​► HAREBRAIN a silly or flighty person; a harebrained person → 1550
► HARRIGOAD ► HARRY-GAUD a wild, wanton girl or child; a run-about, flighty or good-for-nothing person → 1721 Eng. dial.
► HARUM-SCARUM a reckless, unregulated person; a flighty person; reckless action or behaviour → 1784
► HELLICAT a half-witted, flighty person → 1895  (Bk.)
► JACK-O’-WISP a giddy or flighty person → 1896 obs.
► KECKMALAIRY a flighty, over-dressed person → 1825 Eng. dial. 
► MADDLIN ► MADDLING a flighty, extravagant person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PHANTAST a visionary, a dreamer; a flighty, impulsive person → 1588
► RATTLEBOX a talkative person; a chatterer; a flighty person → 1869 Amer. dial.
► SILLYPOP a fool; a foolish, flighty woman → L19 sl.
► SKITTER-WIT a flighty person; a foolish, harebrained fellow; a scatterbrain → 1886 Eng. dial.
► SPACE CADET a person who is flighty, eccentric, or out of touch with reality, as if affected by drugs; a person prone to flight of fancy or irrational or strange behaviour; a perpetually distracted, dizzy person → 1973 sl.
► WINDSKEW a flighty, restless person → 1859 Sc.  

VERBS
► HARRIGOAD ► HARRY-GAUD to go about in a wild, flighty manner; to ramble, to roam about → 1876 Eng. dial.
► HAVE A BEE IN ONE’S BONNET to be eccentric or flighty → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HAVE A BEE IN ONE’S HEAD to be eccentric or flighty → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)