Nippy

Definition: Nippy

Nippy

Adjective

1. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nippy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Synonyms: Nippy

Crosswords: Nippy

Or The Nippy Era (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg)

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Books

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Expressions using "nippy": be nippy ♦ nippy weather. Additional references.

Albanian

therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant), që të pret (bitter, cutting, keen, piercing), kutërbues (noisome, Reeky). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏قارس (chilling, chilly, cutting, frigging, severe, sharp, shrewd), ‏حريف (acrid, cayenne, hot, piquant, poignant, pungent, sharp), ‏سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, hasty, momentary, precipitate, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rife, smart, snappy, speed, speedy, swift), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy), ‏شديد البرد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

резлив (dry, sharp), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, limber, lissome, lithe, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, ready, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile). (various references)

Czech

rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, high speed, quick, rapid, ready, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed), mrazivý (chilly, freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, winterly, wintry), štípavý. (various references)

Farsi 

چالاک (Adroit, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Handy, Jimmy, Lissome, Natty, Nimble, Pawky, Peppy, Prompt, Sprightly, Spry), تندوتیز (Ardent, Astringent, Peppery, Stringent), سوزش دار (Urticant), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), طعنه امیز (Bitter, Sarcastic, Sardonic). (various references)

French

vif, rapide, piquant, pinçant, alerte, agile (nimble), âpre. (various references)

German

beißend (acid, astringent, barbed, biting, bitter, cutting, gnawing, mordacious, mordant, mordantly, pungent, scathing, sharp, tart, trenchant, venomous). (various references)

Greek 

σβέλτοσ (alert, dapper, fleet, lissom, lissome, mobile, natty, nifty, nimble, spry, svelte), ευκίνητοσ (agile, light footed, lithe, mobile, nimble, spry, svelte, vanquishable, vincible), τσουχτερόσ (crisp, keen, nipping, piquant, pungent, spicy), δραστήριοσ (active, efficient, hustler, pushing, vigorous), δηκτικόσ (acrimonious, biting, caustic, cutting, mordant, poignant, pointed, scathing, snappish, stinging). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"יר (fast, fleet, nimble, quick, rapid, snap, spanking, speedy, summary, swift), חריף (acerb, hot taste, mordant, salty, sharp, tart), צובט (nipper), � ושך (usurious). (various references)

Hungarian

pincérnő (waitress), mozgékony (beany, chipper, corky, dapper, go ahead, go-ahead, mercurial, mobile, motile, movable, nimble, snappy, to be full of beans), gyors (agile, current sale, expedite, expeditious, expenditious, expidite, express, facile, fast, fleet, flighty, hasty, high speed, hit and run, laxity, nimble, nimble-footed, presto, prompt, quick, quick as thought, rapid, rash, ready, snap, spanking, speedy, sudden, swift, tantivy), erős (brawny, drastic, forceful, gross, have a kick in it, have plenty of beef, husky, lusty, mighty, mighty limb, muscular, pithy, robustic, rugged, shrewd, sinewy, stalwart, stiff, that's going beyond a joke, thewy, vehement). (various references)

Indonesian

tajam (acrid, acrimonious, acute, brisk, edgy, incisive, keen, poignant). (various references)

Italian

pungente (acrid, biting, bitter, cutting, nipping, piercing, poignant, pointed, prickly, pungent, racy, scathing, sharp, stinging). (various references)

Manx

spulgagh (pecky), mingagh, fanntagh (glacial, keen, keen of wind, slashing), bioyr (breezy, bright, brisk, frisky, graphic, lively, smart, soulstirring, spirited, spry, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, vivid as imagination, volatile). (various references)

Pig Latin

ippynay.(various references)

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), rápido (active, clear-sighted, crisp, double-quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, light-legged, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, riffle, speedy, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, tripping, volant, winged), picante (acerbic, acrid, biting, home, hot, juicy, mordacious, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, risque, rough, salty, savory, savoury, sharp, spicy, stinging, tart), incisivo (cutting, incisive, trenchant), cortante (acerbic, biting, clear-sighted, clipping, incisive, keen, nipping, parky, sharp, slashing, trenchant), ativo (abuzz, acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetic, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, operative, pushful, quick, rangy, rustler, smart, spry, stirring, strenuous, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Romanian

tãios (acid, biting, clipping, curt, cutting, edgy, keen, mordacious, pointed, roughly, severe, severely, sharp, sharply, shortly, spiky, tart, trenchant), sprinten (agile, agilely, alive, fleet, fleet-footed, light footed, lightsome, lissom, lithe, lively, nimble, nimbly, quick, trippingly, wanton, wing-footed), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), geros (frosty, glacial), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry). (various references)

Russian 

холодненький, морозный (freezing, frosty, rimy), проворный (adroit, agile, brisk, deft, dexterous, dextrous, light-footed, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, nimble, on the jump, quick, rash, zippy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hitar (agile, expeditious, fast, light-heeled, light-legged, quick, rangy, rash, trig), brz (cursory, expeditious, fast, fleet, high speed, prompt, quick, rapid, repartee, spanking, speedy, swift, tantivy, tripping). (various references)

Spanish

veloz (fast, fleet, fleet-footed, rakish, speedy, swift, zappy), rápido (agile, darting, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, snappy, spanking, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling), listo (able, all set, apt, brainy, clever, cute, finished, fit, nimble, poised, prepared, quick-witted, ready, ripe, set, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, tap, through), ágil (able, adroit, agile, clever, deft, dexterous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nifty, nimble, proficient, quick, skillful, spry, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

bitande kall (icy). (various references)

Thai

ค่อนข้างหนาว (อากาศ). (various references)

Turkish

keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), iğneleyici (biting, cutting, mordacious, mordant, pricking, sarcastic, sarky, stinging, vitriolic, wry), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), garson (carhop, waiter, waitress), buz gibi (arctic, chill, freezing, frigid, gelid, icily, icy, sour, very cold, wintry), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), çevik (agile, brisk, dapper, fleet, glib, light footed, limber, lissom, lissome, nimble, spry, swift, tripping, volant). (various references)

Ukrainian

різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acrid, acute, argute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, harsh, point blank, raucous, snappish, stark, trenchant, vehement, violent), холодний (arctic, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, frigid, gelid, icy, offish), швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, snappy, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), гостра приправа, офіціантка (waitress), морозний вітер, моторний (adroit, agile, alert, dapper, dashing, deft, dexterous, lissome, lithesome, mercurial, motor, nimble, ready, spry, volant), пікантний (flavored, flavoured, nutty, piquant, pungent, purple, salty, spicy, zestful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tê buốt nhanh nhẹn, lạnh (chill, chilling, chilly, cold), lanh lẹ (nimble). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "nippy": snippy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nippy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fnipp, inpuy, ippi, nappey, nappie, napy, neapy, nepp, Neppe, niep, nipa, nipi, nipt, nipy, noply, Npy, nyp, Nypl, rippy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: piny, pipy, pyin.

-2 letters: nip, pin, pip, yin, yip.

-3 letters: in, pi.

+1 letter: snippy.

+2 letters: gypping, nippily, yapping, yipping.

+3 letters: applying, epiphany, papyrian, papyrine, pipingly, popinjay, snappily, snippety, snippily.

+4 letters: flippancy, nippingly, popinjays, porphyrin, prepaying, pretyping, supplying, unhappily.

+5 letters: flippantly, grippingly, hyperpneic, joypopping, periphyton, phenotypic, pinchpenny, polyphonic, porphyrins, propensity, reapplying, snappishly, trippingly, uppityness.