skittish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Easily scared or startled; timid.
    — The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
  2. Wanton; changeable; fickle.
    — How some men creep in skittish fortune’s hall, Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!
  3. Difficult to manage; tricky.
    — For everybody’s family doctor was remarkably clever, and was understood to have immeasurable skill in the management and training of the most skittish or vicious diseases.

词形变化

more skittish comparative most skittish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
skittishly skittishness unskittish
相关词
startle

词源

Probably from skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction (Scotland, Northern England)”) + -ish; compare skitter.
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