nervy
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nervy
- /ˈnɜː.vi/ UK
- /ˈnɝ.vi/ US
adjective nervier · nerviest
- Having nerve; bold; brazen. It takes a nervy man to promulgate such stuff, and Ted Nelson has made a career out of being nervy.
- Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenalin rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham.
- Strong; sinewy. And, for those simple times, his garments were / A chieftain-king's: beneath his breast, half bare, / Was hung a silver bugle, and between / His nervy knees there lay a boar-spear keen […]
- Jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
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adj nervous
| Русский | не́рвный nérvnyj, нерво́зный nervóznyj, дёрганый djórganyj |
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Talk about this word "nervy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/nervy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. nervy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/nervy "nervy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/nervy.
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@misc{nervy_2026,
title = {nervy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nervy},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
