a. [f. STARTLE v. + -Y.] = STARTLISH.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Startly, apt to start.

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1735.  Dyche & Pardon, Dict., Startish or Startly, fearful, timorous, apt to jump, leap, &c. upon every Noise, &c.

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1840.  Card. Manning, Lett., in Purcell, Life (1895), I. 167. Don’t be so startly, or you will frighten me.

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1889.  Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 148. I soon found that she [a mare] was scared and startly.

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