What is "skittish"

Usage examples of "skittish".

Though Kikit had gone since December without an allergy attack, the last one had left her skittish about eating anything other than what we had checked and she had checked, and even then she searched for things as she ate.

And very soon loud, smacking kisses, amatory pinches and ticklings, and skittish squeals of pleasure did their work.

To the skittish dismay of the buffalo, the parafoils billowed open and jolted their load over the uneven terrain.

Conquering the skittish entrances and squashing some unscored tritones, we flew along well.

The blesbok was too small and skittish - would only teach our oryx frustration.

The little Rabbits, they mighty skittish, and they sort of huddle themselves up together and watch Brer Fox motions.

I curried Gairloch after dinner, and he was skittish, probably because of the early summerlike heat that was creating a high haze in the sky and large numbers of hungry flies that seemed to buzz everywhere.

But she knew that the brass was especially skittish of words like harassment and gender bias, was still smarting from the sexual harassment charges several female employees had made against the outgoing superintendent months before.

Closer to the mainland, at a place called Snake Bight, lives a flock of rare wild flamingos, pink and skittish confetti in the mangroves.

There were skittish gazellelike creatures of the kind she had seen before.

Tucker danced his own kind of ballet through the outcroppings and knotholes of the cramped engineering deck, a complex scaffold made to support experimental technology of the most skittish kind.

Most everyone in Lavas Holding now treated Alain with a skittish deference tinged with disgust, like a man who is afraid to spit on a leprous beggar lest he turn out to be a saint in disguise.

Micro Business Machines and General Electric re was still a lot of amorphously skittish international law ties like Pylos, most of it centering on whether artificial had fulfilled enough of the Turing test to qualify as citile countries AIs had rights comparable to nonliving legal corporations.

It was Olivia who had to fight this time, but yet another clap of thunder drove her skittish horse mad, and she danced first sideways then straight ahead, and jumped high in the air, unexpectedly, across a wall of hedges.

The horse grew more and more skittish, and he tried to calm and control the animal, and so he was still there when MacDonald rounded the switchback turn and practically ran into him.