flyaway

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From fly + away.

My very best go-to-concert-and-theater bonnet.” “I beg your pardon, it was so small, I naturally mistook it for one of the flyaway things you sometimes wear. — Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
She was very loyal, and fortunately rather flyaway both in mind and body; before long she always joined him in his feeling that the whole transaction had been just the usual 'skin-game' on the part of Providence to keep them out of their expectations. — Tatterdemalion, John Galsworthy
All were pale and lean enough, with bronzed faces and bushy beards, their red shell-jackets or blue surtouts out-at-elbows, threadbare, patched, and stained by the mud of the trenches, and there were one or two lisping idiots, with flyaway whiskers, hair divided in the centre, and yaw-haw tones, whose "pwivate affairs had become wemawkably urgent!" — One of the Six Hundred: A Novel, James Grant

flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained

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