Crossword-Solution: JUMPY
We have 26 clues for the answer “JUMPY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nervous – as a flea or frog? | 1 answer |
| Stopping and starting abruptly | 1 answer |
| Like a cat on a hot tin roof | 1 answer |
| Extremely skittish | 1 answer |
| Wired on caffeine, perhaps | 2 answers |
| Extremely anxious | 4 answers |
| Full of nervous energy | 4 answers |
| Very nervous | 9 answers |
| Panicky | 9 answers |
| CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF CAST | 10 answers |
| CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF CHARACTER | 10 answers |
| CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF DIRECTOR | 10 answers |
| CAT ___ HOT TIN ROOF | 10 answers |
| Overwrought | 18 answers |
| On edge? | 20 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| Antsy | 24 answers |
| Skittish | 26 answers |
| Nervy | 28 answers |
| Jitter | 30 answers |
| fitful | 36 answers |
| Alarmed. | 51 answers |
| Nervous | 67 answers |
| fidgety | 78 answers |
| Jittery | 78 answers |
| Excited | 98 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JUMPY (5)
There were no signs of Sandy; somewhere within a hundred yards he was fighting his own battles, and I was tormented by the thought that he might get jumpy again and wreck everything.
But he had been overdoing it, and it was that which now made him feel so “jumpy,” so he assured himself, when he found himself starting at any casual sound outside, or even when his wife spoke to him suddenly.
During dinner he appears to have been rather restless and nervous--"jumpy," according to the evidence of the little serving maid.
Denton being a personage that a landed gentry, rendered jumpy by the perpetual explosion of new ideas under their very feet, and casting about eagerly for friends, could not afford to snub.
With some difficulty I elicited from him the admission that the prisoner, though jumpy [a word that he seemed to think you would understand, gentlemen, and I'm sure I hope you do], was not mad when the cheque was handed to Davis.
Quotes with JUMPY (3)
Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy? Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back. Eve: You're not going to hell. Roarke: Oh, and have you got some inside intel on that? Eve: You married a cop... you married me. I'm your goddamn salvation.
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.
It's a sweet setup, I'll admit. For all that the maids STILL show up each day with jumbo crucifixes, jumpy movements, and red eyes from crying over the short straw that drew them vampire duty.' Yesterday, she'd just stopped herself from raising her clenched hands above her head and chasing one of them around the room groaning, 'I vant to suck your blood.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).