0 (of people and animals) nervous or easily frightened: --
1 (of people and animals) nervous and easily frightened: --
The kitten was really skittish.
What better way to evoke a world of senseless, skittish violence than to disconcert the reader with a challenging and puzzling narrator?
Therefore, even skittish or faddish candidates attract some kind of support.
A horse was feeling skittish one morning and decided to jump out of his field.
You can hear what might have been in a skittish string and marimba tune.
Dogs barked continually; cattle became skittish.
They can be a little skittish.
She is very quiet and skittish.
Deer are highly unpredictable, skittish animals whose normal reaction to an unfamiliar sound is to stop, look and listen to determine if they are being threatened.
