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skittishly

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skit·tish  (sktsh)
adj.
1. Moving quickly and lightly; lively.
2. Restlessly active or nervous; restive.
3. Undependably variable; mercurial or fickle.
4. Shy; bashful.
[Middle English, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skjta, to shoot; see shoot.]
skittish·ly adv.
skittish·ness n.
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Adv.1.skittishly - in a skittish manner; "the horse pranced around skittishly"
Translations
skittishly [ˈskɪtɪʃlɪ] ADV (= capriciously) → caprichosamente; (= nervously) → nerviosamente; (= playfully) → de modo juguetón
skittishly
adv (= playfully) → übermütig, schelmisch; (= flirtatiously: of woman) → neckisch, kokett; (= nervously: of horse) → unruhig
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Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
We began cheerfully, one might almost say skittishly, but our light-heartedness was gone by the time the first potato was finished.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
 
 
 
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