Crossword clues for nippy
nippy
- Like many a fall day
- Rather cold
- A little chilly
- On the cool side
- On the chilly side
- A bit chilly
- Winter forecast adjective
- Very cold — quick (informal)
- Stingingly cold
- Quick, nimble
- Pretty chilly
- Moderately chilly
- Like late fall days
- Like January weather in Chicago
- Fast — cold
- Cold, chilly
- Cold in a stinging way
- A bit cold, like winter air
- Surprisingly cold
- Rather cool
- Brisk
- A bit cold?
- A bit cold, as weather
- Bitingly cold
- Snappish
- A bit cool
- Chilling
- Sharp; biting; cold
- Like fall air, often
- Quick to find unconventional fellow with note for Henry
- Cold, like a crab's claws?
- Able to move quickly
- Slightly cold?
- Arctic fleet
- Untie puppy, frequently having a tendency to bite
- Pretty cool
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nippy \nippy\ adj. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; -- of weather conditions.
Syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, snappy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1898, in reference to a "biting" chill in the air, from nip (n.2) + -y (2). Related: Nippiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context informal English) Of the weather, rather cold. 2 (context informal English) fast; speedy
WordNet
Wikipedia
A nippy was a waitress who worked in the J. Lyons & Co tea shops and cafes in London. Beginning in the late 19th century, a J. Lyons waitress was called a "Gladys". From 1926, because the waitresses nipped (moved quickly) around the tea shops, and the term "Nippy" came into use. Nippies wore a distinctive maid-like uniform with a matching hat.
Usage examples of "nippy".
He tore a strip from his kurta, glad he had worn it in expectation of a nippy wind.
X is a rather dreary little Soviet-fan who combines philately with communism, and is pretty nippy with the darts.
Master Thady Boy Ballagh, ollave, poet, professor, the fifteenth and the nippiest, climbed straight to the yardarm, made his way to the peak, and sixty feet up over a listing deck, knife in hand, probed the lashings.
Oscar made a few wistful remarks about how good New England food would be now that the weather was getting nippy, but there were still no takers for his Criterion Patented Brassbound Pie Safe.
However, the front-wheel drive vehicle was light enough and nippy enough to negotiate even the most unfriendly dry river-beds, although Craig had to corduroy the sandy bottoms with branches to give it purchase in the fine sand.
The sorserir gave me directshins an sum advyce an that, but ah had a nippy heid at the time coz and been drinkin the wine the night befoar an so ah didnae reelly take in aw he wiz sayin an besides ah woz all ecsited coz ah wiz getting tae go intae the Underground at last.
The color in my cheeks was only the product of the nippy air and the freckles stood out like beauty marks.
In fact, she was ambivalent to a degree that made her wonder how her bumper sticker would have read had one been affixed to her buttocks on that nippy January afternoon.
With a roar of engines, the Beaters departed to take up their positions, followed by the Lures, on their nippy dirt bikes that looked all too flimsy for the work they must do.