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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese"
2: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (nippier; -est) Date: 1575 1. marked by a tendency to nip <a nippy dog> 2. brisk, quick, or nimble in movement ; snappy 3. pungent, sharp 4. chilly, chilling <a nippy day> • nippily adverb • nippiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (nippier, nippiest) colloq. 1 quick, nimble, active. 2 chilly, cold. Derivatives: nippily adv. Etymology: NIP(1) + -Y(1)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If the weather is nippy, it is rather cold. (INFORMAL) It could get suddenly nippy in the evenings. = chilly ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 2. If you describe something or someone as nippy, you mean that they can move very quickly over short distances. (BRIT INFORMAL) This nippy new car has fold down rear seats... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, burning, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cool, crisp, curried, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, high-seasoned, hot, hot as pepper, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, lively, nipping, numbing, penetrating, peppery, piercing, pinching, racy, raw, rigorous, seasoned, severe, sharp, shivery, sleety, slushy, snappy, spiced, spicy, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, tangy, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with a kick, zestful, zesty, zippy