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Nervy   Listen
adjective
nervy  adj.  (compar. nervier; superl. nerviest)  
1.
Strong; sinewy. "His nervy knees."
2.
Offensively bold or presumptuous; insolent; cheeky; pushy.
3.
Exhibiting courage or daring; bold; plucky.
4.
Nervous (6); apprehensive; edgy (1).





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"Nervy" Quotes from Famous Books



... bare-headed or cloud-capped, it would be better to blunder upward than lounge all day in camp and eat Sybaritic dinners. We longed for the nervy climb. We must have it. "Up!" said tingling blood to brain. "Dash through the forest! Grasp the crag, and leap the cleft! Sweet flash forth the streamlets from granite fissures. To breathe the winds that smite the peaks ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various
... that the telegraph officials had been nervy enough to resort to police protection. That would be to bring the matter into the courts, and he did not think those who were opposing him would care ...
— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson
... much stump about Elma, this journey!" returned Cornelia, cheerily. "There's nothing to it but a little shock to the constitootion. Elma's constitootion is nervy. What she needs is re-pose. Perfect re-pose! If I were you, I'd send up a note to-morrow, and stay quietly at home. It would naturally upset her some to see you, and she'd ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Words linked to "Nervy" :   highly strung, edgy, uptight, jumpy, brash, jittery, cheeky, tense, overstrung, forward


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