skittish

Etymology
Probably from ; compare skitter.

Adjective

 * 1) Easily scared or startled; timid.
 * 2) * 1557,, Sermons Very Fruitfull, Godly, and Learned, London: Robert Caly, The fiftenth treatice or Sermon,
 * All such be like a skittish starting horse, whiche coming ouer a bridge, wil start for a shadowe, or for a stone lying by him, and leapeth ouer on the other side into the water, & drowneth both horse and man.
 * 1) Wanton; changeable; fickle.
 * 2) Difficult to manage; tricky.
 * 1) Difficult to manage; tricky.
 * 1) Difficult to manage; tricky.
 * 1) Difficult to manage; tricky.

Translations

 * Armenian: խրտնող
 * Middle Armenian: խրչան
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 胆小的, 易受惊的
 * Czech: bojácný,, lekavý
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ektimema
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: medorento, medroso
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua: pavorose, timide
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: pūohorere
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: skvetten
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua: capriciose
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: płochy
 * Spanish: ,