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Startlish

adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Easily startled; skittish. colloquial

    "He stirred up in a kind of a startlish way; but when he see it was only me he took a good gap and stretch, and then he says: “Hello, what's up? Don't cry, bub. What's the trouble?”"

Etymology

From startle + -ish.

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