Skit·tish a.
1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. “A restiff, skittish jade.”
2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. “Skittish Fortune's hall.”
-- Skit*tish*ly, adv. -- Skit*tish*ness, n.
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skittishness
n : characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright
[syn: restiveness]