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English
Etymology
nerve + -y
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Adjective
nervy (comparative nervier, superlative nerviest)
- (US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.
1988 April, David Gans, “Ted Nelson And The Ultimate Information Machine”, in MicroTimes, page 55:It takes a nervy man to promulgate such stuff, and Ted Nelson has made a career out of being nervy.
- (British) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph: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.
- (archaic) Strong; sinewy.
1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: for Taylor and Hessey, , →OCLC, page 1: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 […]
- (technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
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