Skittish (adj)
skit-ish
(of an animal, especially a horse) nervous or excitable; easily scared. / (of a person) playfully frivolous or unpredictable.
Late Middle English perhaps from the rare verb skit ‘move lightly and rapidly’.
Example sentences
“He’s a skittish colt, he’ll be fun to train.”
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