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skiddish

Syllables: skid·dish/ˈskɪdɪʃ/

skiddish is the misspelling of skittish.

Meaning of skittish

Adjective

skittish (comparative more skittish, superlative most skittish)

  1. Easily scared or startled; timid.
    • The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
  2. Wanton; changeable; fickle.
    • How some men creep in skittish fortune’s hall,
      Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. Difficult to manage; tricky.
    • 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.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 15, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please...

Forms of skiddish

comparativemore skiddish
superlativemost skiddish

Questions about skiddish

What is skiddish the misspelling of?
Skiddish is the misspelling of skittish.
How do you pronounce skiddish?
Skiddish is pronounced /ˈskɪdɪʃ/.

Words near skiddish in the dictionary

  1. skiddily
  2. skiddiness
  3. skidding
  4. skiddingly
  5. skiddings
  6. skiddish
  7. skiddles
  8. skiddly
  9. skiddoo
  10. skiddooed
  11. skiddooing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skiddish (page history and authors); skittish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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