List of synonyms from "skip town" to synonyms from "skylarking"
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Definition of the day : « skittish »
- adj very nervous
- "There's only about a dozen guests there now, so you needn't get skittish," says he.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
- Usually he was not skittish nor afraid of trains or engines.
- Extract from : « Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South » by Laura Lee Hope
- The horse is "skittish" and playful in the morning, not so much so at night.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Mind » by James Mark Baldwin
- "Shady says the roan's too skittish for any of the young ladies—" he suggested.
- Extract from : « Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party » by C. E. Jacobs
- Of course it's silly for a girl who's nearly nineteen to be as skittish as I am.
- Extract from : « Otherwise Phyllis » by Meredith Nicholson
- There is no satire, very little humor and nothing in the least skittish.
- Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 » by Various
- O, yes it does; a year's a great deal; they are so skittish at nineteen.
- Extract from : « A Bold Stroke for a Husband » by Hannah Cowley
- This gracefull and skittish little Animal is a wonder to behold.
- Extract from : « Mr Punch's Animal Land » by E. T. Reed
- But this made her skittish, and she stamped sharply half a dozen times.
- Extract from : « Boys of The Fort » by Ralph Bonehill
- They will not now change their title to the London Skittish.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. » by Various