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adjective

Skittish adj.

Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade."

Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall."

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Etymology of 'Skittish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Skittish" Quotes from Famous Books

... with Napoleon in Danzig, when his august brother-in-law had told him: "I made you King that you should reign in my way, but not in yours!"—he had cheerfully taken up his familiar business, and—like a well-fed but not overfat horse that feels himself in harness and grows skittish between the shafts—he dressed up in clothes as variegated and expensive as possible, and gaily and contentedly galloped along the roads of Poland, without himself ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... yarn, Sim. It happened this way: You see, I was comin' along the road between East Wellmouth and the Center when I run afoul of him. He was fat and shiny, and drivin' a skittish horse hitched to a fancy buggy. When he sighted me he hove ...

— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln

... the cushion. I must go and get it. But the nose-rope makes the bullocks skittish. I suppose I had better take the cart ...

— The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika • (Attributed To) King Shudraka

... gulp, his heels well together in military fashion. Minora thought the incident typical of German manners, and not only made notes about it, but joined heartily in the health-drinking, and afterward grew skittish. ...

— Elizabeth and her German Garden • "Elizabeth", AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp

... is, in love, for what truly? Your noble onnur has too much bowels of fatherly miseration. No, no! Your noble onnur has a clencht it; take her now she is in the humour. Whereby maidens be wayward and fain and froward and full of skittish tricks, when they be happen to be crossed in love. Take her in the humour your wise ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

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