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Definition of Nippy
1. Adjective. A sharp biting taste. "A nippy cheese"
2. Adjective. Pleasantly cold and invigorating. "Snappy weather"
Similar to: Cold
Derivative terms: Frost, Frostiness, Nip, Snap, Snap
Definition of Nippy
1. Noun. (UK dated) A waitress in a Lyons Corner House. ¹
2. Adjective. (informal) Of the weather, rather cold. ¹
3. Adjective. (informal) fast; speedy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nippy
1. sharp or biting [adj -PIER, -PIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nippy
Literary usage of Nippy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"WHAT KATY FOUND. ONE morning little Katy Cole missed her cat. She was a pretty
white pussy, and was called nippy. Her whole name was a rather ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"Next-day, the day after to-morrow.—R. Nipper, a small child ; also, a stingy
person.—R. nippy, stingy ; niggardly. ..."
3. Clavis Calendaria: Or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar, Illustrated by John Henry Brady (1815)
"WINTER,—slippy, drippy, nippy. SPRING,—showery, flowery, bowery. SUMMER,—hoppy,
croppy, poppy. Although the terms Calendar and Almanac are in general ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"... and always with an air that seemed to me, in spite of his endeavours to the
contrary, as grave as the usual aspect of Laird nippy of the Peel. ..."
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