fiddle-footed

fiddle-footed
adjective Date: 1941 1. skittish, jumpy <
a fiddle-footed horse
>
2. prone to wander <
the nameless fiddle-footed drifters, the shifty riders who traveled the back trails — Luke Short
>

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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