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.”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
