单词 | nippy |
释义 | nippy (once / 59694 pages) adj WORD FAMILY nippy: nippier, nippiest, nippily+/nip: nipped, nipper, nipping, nippy, nips/nipper: nippers/nipping: nippingly USAGE EXAMPLESIn Fahrenheit, that translates to 14 degrees, a bit nippy even for the Sudbury, Canada-born Carlyle as he sought warmer, more practical conditions. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) “They’re pretty nippy,” even when well-fed on bites of chopped fish dropped into their tank, he added. Washington Times(Dec 11, 2016) Gals stuck to cozy knits, though some, inexplicably, wore T-shirts and backless tops on this nippy fall night. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) 1adj a sharp biting taste a nippy cheese Syn tasty pleasing to the sense of taste 2adj pleasantly cold and invigorating a nippy fall day Syn crisp, frosty, nipping, snappy cold having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration |
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