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skittish
c.1412, "very lively, frivolous," perhaps from Scand. base
*skyt-
(stem of O.N.
skjuta
"to shoot"), from PIE base
*skeud-
"to shoot, to chase, to throw, to project" (see
shoot
(v.)). Sense of "apt to run" first recorded about 1510, of horses.
