absent-minded person
1absent-minded professor — noun a) A stereotypical fictional character whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore or forget their surroundings. An absent minded professor, in going out of the gateway of his college, ran against a cow. In the confusion of the… …
2Absent referent — (sometimes Missing Referent, or Missing Antecedent) is a concept from linguistics, and is the condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent. There are many examples of …
3cadet — n. 1) an air force; military; naval cadet 2) (slang) (AE) a space cadet ( an absent minded person ) * * * [kə det] military naval cadet an air force (slang) (AE) a space cadet ( an absent minded person ) …
4feather — n. & v. n. 1 any of the appendages growing from a bird s skin, with a horny hollow stem and fine strands. 2 one or more of these as decoration etc. 3 (collect.) a plumage. b game birds. v. 1 tr. cover or line with feathers. 2 tr. Rowing turn (an… …
5The Diamond Arm — Film poster Directed by Leonid Gaidai Written by Leonid Gaidai Yakov Kos …
6moon-calf — Mainly a seventeenth century expression, applied most famously to Caliban, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The word originally referred to a person misshapen at birth, a monstrosity, the influence of the moon being blamed for such accidents of… …
7Musard — Mu sard, n. [F., fr. muser to loiter, trifle. See {Muse}, v. i.] A dreamer; an absent minded person. [Obs.] Rom. of R. [1913 Webster] …
8Shannon Foraker — Commander Shannon Foraker is a fictional character in the Honorverse. An expert tactical officer, she has served under Warner Caslet onboard the light cruiser PNS Vaubon during the early years of the war, gaining a reputation of a tac witch for… …
9Alejandro Rossi — (born Alessandro Rossi, September 22, 1932 in Florence, Italy of Venezuelan mother and Italian father) is a Mexican writer.Alejandro Rossi has written philosophical essays, short stories and the following books: Lenguaje y significado (Language… …
10feather-brain — noun a silly or absent minded person. Derivatives feather brained adjective …
