UNSETTLE, UNSETTLED
ADJECTIVES
► BEE-HEADED harebrained, flighty, excitable; light-headed, unsettled → 1879
► CLARTY-FARTY moving briskly about; frisking; unsettled → 19C Eng. dial.
► FLISKY fidgety; unsettled; light-headed; whimsical; frolicsome; flighty; lively: of a horse: restive, frisky → 1807 Sc.
► FREAKED disturbed, unsettled, nervous → 1970 US sl.
► FUNKED seized by fear or panic; agitated, unsettled, disturbed → 1831
► FUNKED OUT seized by fear or panic; agitated, unsettled, disturbed → 1859
► MAIZY ► MAZEY ► MAZY wandering, uneasy, unsettled; semi-conscious, wandering in one’s mind → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAMPLOR roving, unsettled, restless → 1821 Sc.
► TICKLISH unstable, unsteady, unsettled, uncertain, fickle → 1606
► UNABSOILED unsettled → 1521 obs.
► UNABSOLVED unsettled, undecided → 1721 obs.
► VAGOUS vagrant or vague; departing from or exceeding just or ordinary bounds; irregular, inordinate; unsettled, wandering → 1660 obs.
► WANKILL ► WANKLE ► WANTLE ► WENKLE unsteady, insecure; changeable, unsettled, precarious; inconstant, wavering → c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► OLD NIDDY-NODDY a very erratic and unsettled person → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SKOUPER a light, unsettled person → 1706 Sc.
► TANTREL ► TANTRELL an idle, unsettled person, who will not fix to any employment; a desultory wanderer or vagabond; hence, a gypsy → 1855 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANDERING STRAW an unsettled person who moves from job to job → 1971 Sc.
► WOOD-SPUR ► WOOD-SPURS a fiery, unsettled person → 1825 Sc. obs.
VERBS
► FREAK OUT to make someone feel unsettled, astonished, or bizarre → 1964 US sl.
► FUNK to frighten or scare someone; to affect with anxiety, to unsettle → 1789 obs.
► LASHOP to move about in an uneasy, restless, unsettled manner → 1902 Eng. dial.
► LICK ABOUT ► LICK AROUND to live an unsettled life → 20C W. Indies sl.
► UNBOTTOM to deprive of support or stay; to unsettle or make unstable → 1598 obs.
► UNFETTLE to disarrange, to disturb, to undo, to unsettle → 1889 Eng. dial.
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