jumpy

jumpy
adj
1. skittish, fidgety, jittery, fluttery, nervy, edgy, on edge; shaky, quivery, itchy, scratchy, twitching; tremulous, trembling, quivering, aflutter, atremble, all of a twitter.
2. nervous, apprehensive, fretful; excited, anxious, disquieted, Sl. uptight, uneasy, restive; fussing, unquiet, unsteady, unrelaxed, tense; scared, frightened, afraid, panicky, alarmed, funky; shy, timorous, timid, diffident.
3. saltatory, jerky, spastic, fitful, convulsive, spasmodic, by fits and starts; choppy, bumpy, joggling, jiggly, jolting, jarring, rough.

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