skittish

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skit·tish /ˈskɪtɪʃ/ adjective  1. DSHNERVOUSan animal, especially a horse, that is skittish gets excited or frightened very easily 〔动物，尤指马〕易激动的，易受惊的2. CHANGE YOUR MINDa person who is skittish is not very serious, and their feelings, behaviour, and opinions keep changing 〔人〕轻浮的，轻佻的；善变的3  if people who buy shares are skittish, they are nervous and worried about them dropping in value, and might sell the shares that they own because of this 〔购买股票者〕紧张不安的，担心股价下跌的 SYN jittery Some skittish Wall Street investors are staying away from the market. 一些患得患失的华尔街投资者不敢入市。 —skittishly adverb

Examples from the Corpus

skittish• Any pack animals the adventurers have may get restless and skittish.• And if Apple falls apart, software developers could get even more skittish about sinking money into writing programs for Macs.• Institutional investors such as mutual funds are more skittish and can bail out after a few quarters of soft earnings.• Cranston's mount became skittish and even Philomel showed a lively interest in the group round the scaffold.• At the heart of the problem is this: Bighorn sheep are skittish animals.• My horse was skittish, I could not settle him.• As it is, the thundering herd is likely to prove a skittish lot.• At work she was a supremely confident executive; with her first child she was a skittish novice.Origin skittish (1300-1400) Perhaps from Old Norse skjota “to shoot”

skit·tish adjectiveChineseSyllable  

Corpus animal, that gets a horse, is an especially skittish

skittish
skit‧tish /ˈskɪtɪʃ/ adjective1. an animal, especially a horse, that is skittish gets excited or frightened very easily
2. a person who is skittish is not very serious, and their feelings, behaviour, and opinions keep changing
3. if people who buy shares are skittish, they are nervous and worried about them dropping in value, and might sell the shares that they own because of this
   SYN  jittery:
    Some skittish Wall Street investors are staying away from the market.
—skittishly adverb

skit·tishBrE /ˈskɪtɪʃ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈskɪtɪʃ/ 🔊 adjective(of horses 马) easily excited or frightened and therefore difficult to control 易惊而难以驾驭的(of people 人) not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keep changing 轻浮的；易变的；反复无常的(especially NAmE, business 商业) likely to change suddenly 说变就变的；变幻莫测的◆skittish financial markets变幻莫测的金融市场▸ skit·tish·ly BrE /ˈskɪtɪʃli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈskɪtɪʃli/ 🔊 adverb▸ skit·tish·ness BrE /ˈskɪtɪʃnəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈskɪtɪʃnəs/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]