Meanings (ES + gloss)
asustadizo • chúcaro • espantadizo • huidizo • pajarero • temeroso • tímido
Easily scared or startled; timid.
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 o…
The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
caprichoso • voluble
Wanton; changeable; fickle.
How some men creep in skittish fortune’s hall, Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!
[…] ’Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should wooe a soul; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation; and t’ address The skittish fancy with facetious tales…
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