Crossword-Solution: SKITTISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skittish | v. t. | Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. |
| Skittish | v. t. | Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “SKITTISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Very jumpy | 1 answer |
| Unpredictably excitable | 1 answer |
| People-wary, as a horse | 1 answer |
| Like some newly rescued dogs | 1 answer |
| Like colts and lambs | 1 answer |
| Like a scaredy-cat | 1 answer |
| Easy to scare | 1 answer |
| Easily startled | 1 answer |
| Apt to start | 1 answer |
| Apt to shy, as a horse | 1 answer |
| alarmable | 2 answers |
| Easily frightened | 5 answers |
| saltatory | 5 answers |
| saltatorial | 6 answers |
| Difficult to control | 9 answers |
| COLTS | 11 answers |
| Leaping | 12 answers |
| Jumpy | 21 answers |
| Antsy | 24 answers |
| Preposterous | 37 answers |
| frisky | 42 answers |
| Loony | 42 answers |
| Hare-brained | 68 answers |
| excitable | 73 answers |
| restive | 74 answers |
| Restless | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SKITTISH (5)
Signa is apt to be skittish at mealtime, when the men are about, and to spill the coffee or upset the cream.
Mine was not a full-grown bicycle, but only a colt—a fifty-inch, with the pedals shortened up to forty-eight—and skittish, like any other colt.
Orion: They are useful brutes, Though somewhat skittish; the foam is whit'ning The crest and rein of my courser "Lightning"; He pulls to-night, being short of work, And takes his head with a sudden jerk; Still heel and steady hand on the bit, For that is "Tempest" on which you sit.
Spirited horses, when not enough exercised, are often called skittish, when it is only play; and some grooms will punish them, but our John did not; he knew it was only high spirits.
Always a lady, whether she was bargaining with the butcher, or breaking in a skittish charwoman, or stirring the porridge, which I can see her doing with the porridge-stick in one hand, and the other holding her Revue des deux Mondes within two inches of her dear nose.
Quotes with SKITTISH (3)
Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.
That was . . .” I trailed off trying to find the proper adjective.“Long overdue?”“Long overdue? You’re the one who got skittish when I mentioned how I felt and backed away when we almost kissed.”“You call me on all my crap, don’t you?” He laughed throwing his head back. “That’s one of the things I love about you,” he said. His fingersskimmed up my shoulders until they cradled my neck and my whole body tingling.
You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1999–2024).