"as nervous as a witch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1871, Donald Kennedy, Kennedy on diseases of the skin, page 94:",
          "text": "The nerves often get clogged up, or choked up, both inside and outside: they get clogged up by humours settling on them, [...] and you become as nervous as a witch. Then again, the nervous fluid. what used to be called the animal spirits, or the marrow of the nerve, get thick and clogged; and all obstruction in it must be forced out.",
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          "text": "[…] \"a pinch always makes me start up as nervous as a witch, and I never could talk sense during an electric storm. I feel nervous now just to think of it.\"",
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        "Very nervous or restless."
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        "(US, especially Northeastern US) Very nervous or restless."
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