skittish
skit·tish
adjective
1.
unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Origin
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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