Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - skittish
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Skittish
skittish
1. If you describe a person or animal as skittish, you mean they are easily made frightened or excited. The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors. = nervous ADJ 2. Someone who is skittish does not concentrate on anything or take life very seriously. ...his relentlessly skittish sense of humour. ADJ
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adjective Etymology: Middle English, from skit- (probably from Old Norse skyt-) + -ish Date: 15th century 1. a. lively or frisky in action ; capricious b. variable, fluctuating 2. easily frightened ; restive a ~ horse 3. a. coy, bashful b. marked by extreme caution ; wary ~ investors • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 lively, playful. 2 (of a horse etc.) nervous, inclined to shy, fidgety. Derivatives skittishly adv. skittishness n. Etymology: ME, perh. formed as SKIT(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. норовистый, упрямый skittish horse —- норовистая лошадь 2. живой, резвый; игривый; кокетливый 3. своенравный, капризный, ветреный skittish little thing —- ветреная девчонка 4. непрочный, изменчивый, непостоянный; коварный skittish fortune —- изменчивая фортуна 5. пугливый, робкий 6. крайне осторожный, осмотрительный ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 a horse or other animal that is skittish easily gets excited or frightened 2 a person who is skittish is not very serious, and their feelings, behaviour, and opinions keep changing - skittishly adv - skittishness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1412, "very lively, frivolous," perhaps from Scand. base *skyt- (stem of O.N. skjuta "to shoot"). Sense of "apt to run" first recorded about 1510, of horses. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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