The meaning of Nippy

adjective

Performing, involving, or adept at spectacular gymnastic feats.

Usage examples:

An acrobatic dive

adjective

Involving a lot of skill and energy in controlling the movement of your body to do something difficult

Usage examples:

Karate is a very acrobatic martial art.

adjective

Engaging or ready to engage in physically energetic pursuits.

Usage examples:

Although he was seventy he was still robust and active

noun

Denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject is typically the person or thing performing the action and which can take a direct object (e.g. she loved him as opposed to the passive form he was loved ).

adjective

Doing something as you usually do, or being able to do something physically or mentally

Usage examples:

He was still an active runner at 55., she’s active in state politics (= involved in it)., she inten…

adjective

Clever or skilful.

Usage examples:

He was adroit at tax avoidance

adjective

Very skillful and quick in the way you think or move

Usage examples:

She became adroit at dealing with difficult people., he adroitly slid the money into his pocket.

adjective

Able to move quickly and easily.

Usage examples:

Ruth was as agile as a monkey

adjective

Having a sharp, pungent taste or smell; not sweet.

Usage examples:

Raw berries have an intensely bitter flavour

noun

Beer that is strongly flavoured with hops and has a bitter taste, brewed by top fermentation.

Usage examples:

A pint of bitter

adjective

Having a slightly stinging, strong taste, not salty or sweet

Usage examples:

The coffee was bitter., losing the election was a bitter disappointment., she has no bitterness abo…

adjective

Uncomfortably or unpleasantly cold.

Usage examples:

A chilly february evening

adjective

Cold but not freezing

Usage examples:

A chilly morning, fig. their relationship was decidedly chilly (= unfriendly) after the argument.

adjective

Of or at a low or relatively low temperature, especially when compared with the human body.

Usage examples:

A freezing cold day

noun

A low temperature; cold weather; a cold environment.

Usage examples:

My teeth chattered with the cold

adverb

Completely; entirely.

Usage examples:

We stopped cold behind a turn in the staircase

adjective

Neatly skilful and quick in one's movements.

Usage examples:

A deft piece of footwork

adjective

Skillful, effective, and quick

Usage examples:

He cut some logs up for firewood with a few deft strokes of his ax., she deftly answered the tough …

adjective

Showing or having skill, especially with the hands.

Usage examples:

A dexterous keyboard player

adjective

Capable of bending easily without breaking.

Usage examples:

Flexible rubber seals

adjective

Able to change or be changed easily according to the situation

Usage examples:

I’m fortunate because my job has flexible hours, and i can come and go pretty much as i want., the …

adjective

A flexible person or company can work in different ways, at different times, or in different places when it is necessary

Usage examples:

How can we encourage employees to be more flexible?, be flexible about sth companies can now be mor…

adjective

Having or showing grace or elegance.

Usage examples:

She was a tall girl, slender and graceful

adjective

Covered with or consisting of ice.

Usage examples:

There were icy patches on the roads

noun

The natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible.

Usage examples:

The light of the sun

verb

Provide with light or lighting; illuminate.

Usage examples:

The room was lit by a number of small lamps

adjective

Having a considerable or sufficient amount of natural light; not dark.

Usage examples:

The bedrooms are light and airy

adjective

(of a person or body part) lithe or supple.

Usage examples:

I have to practise to keep myself limber

verb

Warm up in preparation for exercise or activity, especially sport or athletics.

Usage examples:

The acrobats were limbering up for the big show

noun

The detachable front part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels and an axle, a pole, and a frame holding one or more ammunition boxes.

Usage examples:

The ammunition limber was the worst for wear and required the most work.

adjective

(of a person or their body) thin, supple, and graceful.

Usage examples:

The kind of outfit that should be left to lissom teenagers

adjective

Attractively thin and able to move quickly and smoothly

adjective

(especially of a person's body) thin, supple, and graceful.

Usage examples:

She lay gazing up at his tall, lithe figure

adjective

(of a body) thin and attractive, and able to move easily and gracefully, or (of movements) easy and graceful

Usage examples:

He was a fabulous athlete, full of lithe, quick movements., she represented the era's ideal of lith…

adjective

Full of life and energy; active and outgoing.

Usage examples:

A lively and uninhibited girl

adjective

Having or showing a lot of energy and enthusiasm, or showing interesting and exciting thought

Usage examples:

We have a lively group of seniors who meet to discuss the books they’ve read., imelda takes a livel…

adjective

(of food) not cooked.

Usage examples:

Raw eggs

adjective

Having or showing skill.

Usage examples:

A skilful midfielder

adjective

Good at doing something, especially because you have practised doing it

Usage examples:

Police officers have to be skilful drivers., a skilful piece of playing on the clarinet

adjective

(especially of an old person) lively; full of energy.

Usage examples:

She was quite sprightly for her age

adjective

(especially of old people) energetic and in good health

Usage examples:

He's a sprightly old man of 75.

adjective

(especially of an old person) active; lively.

Usage examples:

He continued to look spry and active well into his eighties

adjective

(esp. of an old person) active and able to move quickly and energetically

Usage examples:

A spry elderly lady was pulling weeds in a large garden.

adjective

Bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible.

Usage examples:

Her supple fingers

verb

Make more flexible.

Usage examples:

I was also able to concentrate on bending and suppling him laterally.

adjective

Bending or able to be bent easily; not stiff

Usage examples:

His supple fingers manipulated the needle with the utmost delicacy., fig. adams brings a supple (= …

noun

A small finger-shaped sponge cake with a synthetic cream filling.