The word “skittish”.

“Hello I am from the Isle of Skit.  I’m skittish!”

OK, bad joke, but the word skittish seems to flit about nervously, preparing to dart off randomly at any moment.  Horses can be famously skittish, dancing left and right as they are wont to do, before suddenly charging directly at you in the pattern of the dreaded Madagascar Attack Horse, a species I invented to be part of this paragraph.  Being skittish should not be confused with insects that invade your home and skitter across the floor, although such images can make one squeamish AND skittish, or ‘squeamittish’.   You can google ‘squeamittish’ and discover that “No results containing all your search terms were found.” Yet, your life will be made whole when google asks helpfully if instead you meant to search for “squattish”, a word Ms Merriam Webster defines as “somewhat squat”.

“Hello I am from the Isle of Squat.  I’m squattish!”