† shatter-headed,a.Obs.rare. = shatter-brained. (Cf. scatter-headed.) c1686in Brasenose Coll. Quatern. Monogr. (O.H.S.) II. i. xii. 23 A shatter-headed Fellow of Brasen-nose College.1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 226 Prithee, shatter⁓headed Fop.