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Skittish
Skit"tish\, a. [See Skit, v. t.]1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." --L'Estrange. 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." --Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness, n.
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skittish
c.1412, "very lively, frivolous," perhaps from Scand. base *skyt- (stem of O.N. skjuta "to shoot"), from PIE base *skeud- "to shoot, to chase, to throw, to project" (see shoot (v.)). Sense of "apt to run" first recorded about 1510, of horses.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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