dartier

Adjective

darty (comparative dartier or more darty, superlative dartiest or most darty)

1. Tending to dart; tending to make quick and sudden moves, especially to the side.
   • Then the tits—particularly the blue tits—begin to flash like light from tree to tree, with their tweenk, tweenk, tweenk; one of the prettiest but most pugnacious of birds; and if you are near water, the wanton wagtails are never long out of it, with their pert and sidelong glance and darty walk...1887 September, Alex H. Japp, “Up in the Morning Early”, in Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume 263, number 1881, page 296
2. Of a car: having a sharp turning radius and tight steering that is responsive to slight turns of the wheel.
   • Tiller steering is not for the faint-hearted. It is darty, like a ferret on a lead. Left turns involve pulling the short lever awkwardly into your tummy, and then there's the thought that any kind of impact could involve the driver being skewered like a cocktail sausage.2017 May 17, Andrew English, “Old-time machine: Can this 1904 Vauxhall handle Britain in the 21st Century?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

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