skittish

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more skittish

Superlative

most skittish

1.
Easily scared or startled; timid.
The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
1557, Roger Edgeworth, Sermons Very Fruitfull, Godly, and Learned, London: Robert Caly, The fiftenth treatice or Sermon, All such be like a skittish starting horse, whiche coming ouer a bridge, wil start for a shadowe, or for a stone lying by him, and leapeth ouer on the other side into the water, & drowneth both horse and man.
2.
Wanton; changeable; fickle.
3.
Difficult to manage; tricky.

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Đồng nghĩa

spookish jumpy skitteryskitterishsquirrelly

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unskittishskittishly skittishness

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Nguồn gốc từ

Probably from skite + -ish; compare skitter.