nippy

How to use nippy in a sentence

The air was getting a little nippy, as Buster called it; so that several of the motorboat boys had donned their sweaters.

He remembered that he had ridden in one a few days before and that it was what he called "nifty and nippy."

Yer'd best look nippy and come into the kitchen and 'ave yer brekfus'.

Even elderly ladies who looked with abhorrence upon the drinking habit were not denied their wee bit nippy.

He directed the men to help him onto his feet and soon came back with his old-fashioned nippy gait.

Nippy, frosty nights had put Mr. Carter wise to the many cracks that he must stop up.

Wilson might have set up for himself in the nippy northern town.

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

THE BELL TONEEDMUND H. LEFTWICH

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

THE BELL TONEEDMUND H. LEFTWICH

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

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985