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Definition of Skittery
1. skittish [adj -TERIER, -TERIEST] - See also: skittish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skittery
Literary usage of Skittery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"You on't catch me drinkin' that there new cider again ! nif didn make me skittery
then last night, sure 'nough ! ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"Your horse is n't skittery, is he? Perhaps your folks have gone somewhere to stay
all night. ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... "skittery," "Bag of Bones," "One Lung Pete," and "Scotty" were in the same
group; and so also was "Jake the Oyster," a tender-hearted boy who was spoken ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... "skittery," "Bag of Bones," "One Lung Pete," and "Scotty" were in the same
group; and so also was "Jake the Oyster," a tender-hearted boy who was spoken ..."
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