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"Easily startled"2 answers
jumpy5 lettersskittish8 letters
Filled answer is this word (SKITTISH).
Definitions
unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Word origin
Probably from skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction (Scotland, Northern England)”) + -ish; compare skitter.
Used in a sentence
“The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.”
“How some men creep in skittish fortune’s hall, Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!”
“For everybody’s family doctor was remarkably clever, and was understood to have immeasurable skill in the management and training of the most skittish or vicious diseases.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Easily startled”8 letters
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