Wednesday's Random Slang-o-rama: Twitterpated/Shatterpated

Ooooh I'd love to use twitterpated in my historical mystery circa 1882, but nope nope nope...
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According to The Online Etymological Dictionary, twitterpated only came into being in 1942. (It sounds so much older, right?) What's more, it was Disney Studios that apparently coined it:

twitterpated: [F]irst attested in the Walt Disney movie "Bambi"... a past-participle adjective formed from twitter in the "tremulous excitement" noun sense (1670s) + pate (n.2) "head".  

Thumper: Why are they acting that way? 

Friend Owl: Why, don't you know? They're twitterpated. 

Flower, Bambi, Thumper: Twitterpated? 

Friend Owl: Yes. Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example: You're walking along, minding your own business. You're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of a sudden you run smack into a pretty face. Woo-woo! You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!

However, the word shatterpated is another story. This is what I found in the online 1828 Webster's Dictionary:

1. Disordered or wandering in intellect.
2. Heedless wild; not consistent.

Shatterpated also shows up in A Dictionary of the English LanguageIn which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 4 by Samuel Johnson and Henry John Todd, from 1818. The definition: inattentive; not consistent.

So, I'd better not include twitterpated characters in my fictional world of the 1880s, lest I be accused of being shatterpated.

This twitterpation must stop! (Or at least be moved to a different century.)
Les Amants dans la campagne by Gustave Courbet, 1844