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Synonyms for nippy

Grammar : Adj
Spell : nip-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɪp i


Définition of nippy

Origin :
  • 1898, in reference to a "biting" chill in the air, from nip (n.2) + -y (2). Related: Nippiness.
  • adj chilly
Example sentences :
  • The wind was in their faces, such wind as there was, and the air was keen and nippy.
  • Extract from : « Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp » by Annie Roe Carr
  • Would have liked to have warned you the other night, but Bacon was too nippy.
  • Extract from : « To Love » by Margaret Peterson
  • Right in front of him was Nippy, worrying the wriggling tail with her sharp teeth like a little terrier.
  • Extract from : « Wild Folk » by Samuel Scoville
  • They carry the mail over vast, snowy wildernesses, and even sometimes to Dawson, when the air is not too nippy.
  • Extract from : « The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three » by Dexter J. Forrester
  • Efter a while I felt a bit sleepy; 'twere t' nippy air, an' mebbe t' seet o' t' fallin' watter dazed my een.
  • Extract from : « More Tales of the Ridings » by Frederic Moorman
  • Then, as the air was nippy with frost, Miss Brazilla hurried indoors again.
  • Extract from : « Rilla of the Lighthouse » by Grace May North
  • Little "Nippy," my beloved fox terrier, and constant companion, rushed into the laboratory and ran up to me.
  • Extract from : « The Bell Tone » by Edmund H. Leftwich
  • Nippy would have nothing to do with me, and crawled dejectedly from the room, a terrified look in his eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Bell Tone » by Edmund H. Leftwich
  • Sharp to time, at three o'clock on a very "nippy" afternoon, a most terrific cannonade was opened on the doomed trench.
  • Extract from : « With the Zionists in Gallipoli » by John Henry Patterson
  • Under Alcock's skillful hands the big Vimy became almost as nippy as a single-seater scout.
  • Extract from : « Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours » by Arthur Whitten Brown

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