Daily Logophilia | New Words on Instagram: "Pithered (pronounced pith erd) is a Scots word meaning flustered, confused, or mentally scattered, especially when your thoughts feel tangled and you cannot quite get yourself organized; it likely comes from older Scottish dialect words related to fussing or dithering, and it captures that familiar state of mild chaos where even simple tasks feel overwhelming because your mind is rushing in too many directions at once, as in the sentence I was complete