Definitions for nippy

nippy nip·py

Spelling: [nip-ee]
IPA: /ˈnɪp i/

Nippy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in nippy (inppy).

Definitions for nippy

adjective

  1. chilly or cold:
  2. sharp or biting; tangy:
  3. Chiefly British Informal. nimble; agile.

Origin of nippy

First recorded in 1565-75; nip1 + -y1

Examples for nippy

Right in front of him was nippy, worrying the wriggling tail with her sharp teeth like a little terrier.

Sharp to time, at three o'clock on a very "nippy" afternoon, a most terrific cannonade was opened on the doomed trench.

Would have liked to have warned you the other night, but Bacon was too nippy.

Little "nippy," my beloved fox terrier, and constant companion, rushed into the laboratory and ran up to me.

They carry the mail over vast, snowy wildernesses, and even sometimes to Dawson, when the air is not too nippy.

But nippy would keep on doing it until everything was gone.

nippy would have nothing to do with me, and crawled dejectedly from the room, a terrified look in his eyes.

Then, as the air was nippy with frost, Miss Brazilla hurried indoors again.

Efter a while I felt a bit sleepy; 'twere t' nippy air, an' mebbe t' seet o' t' fallin' watter dazed my een.

The wind was in their faces, such wind as there was, and the air was keen and nippy.

Word Value for nippy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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