shuttle-witted love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shuttle-brained; flighty; foolish.

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Examples

  • I pray ye now, see there how shuttle-witted are these girls: to bemoan herself before that she had seen me!

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • I wondered what had called forth in a lad so shuttle-witted this enduring sense of duty.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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