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/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "toh" (as in "toll") + "lohn" (as in "loan") + "DRAH" (as in "draft") + "doh" (as in "door")/

Meaning

A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.

Examples

He is so scatterbrained he locked his own keys inside the car.

Don't be so impulsive, think it through before you answer.

Regional synonyms

Naked, in the buff, with nothing on, or practically nothing. In Mexico, if someone shows up encuerado, they're wearing their birthday suit. It can also describe someone caught in a very awkward state of undress at the wrong moment.