Crossword-Solution: NERVY 5 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Nervy superl. - Strong; sinewy.

We have 44 clues for the answer “NERVY”

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With much gall 1 answer
Bold-faced 1 answer
Bold: Colloq. 1 answer
Boldly presumptuous 1 answer
Brashly insolent 1 answer
Briticism for jittery. 1 answer
Chutzpah-driven 1 answer
Displaying chutzpah 1 answer
Having courage. 1 answer
It means "agitated" to a Brit and "brazen" to an American 1 answer
Jumpy, anxious 1 answer
Pure balls 1 answer
Showing ample cheek 1 answer
Showing chutzpah 1 answer
Jump excitedly 2 answers
Hardly shy 3 answers
Full of courage 3 answers
Shamelessly bold 3 answers
Having chutzpah 3 answers
Full of moxie 5 answers
Full of chutzpah 5 answers
highly strung 6 answers
highly-strung 6 answers
BIGGETY 8 answers
BE AUDACIOUS 11 answers
High-strung 11 answers
On edge? 20 answers
Sassy 27 answers
brash 44 answers
Cheeky 49 answers
Courageous 53 answers
Tense 55 answers
Anxious 56 answers
Quivering 58 answers
shaking 59 answers
Edgy 70 answers
Daring 70 answers
Impudent 72 answers
audacious 75 answers
Brazen 77 answers
Insolent 78 answers
Jittery 78 answers
Bold 82 answers
Forward. 89 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NERVY (5)

And this is a rehearsal for a vampire film.” “You nervy little devil, you!” He reached out with one great, irresistible hand and gripped her shoulder.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
You're a born reformer.” “I am not--not any more!” “Of course you are.” “Oh, if I really could help----So they think I'm affected?” “My lamb, they do! Now don't say they're nervy.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006
Instead of dropping to the ground like a bullet an aeroplane, under ordinary conditions will, when anything goes wrong, sail gently downward like a parachute, particularly if the operator is cool-headed and nervy enough to so manipulate the apparatus as to preserve its equilibrium and keep the machine on an even keel.
Flying Machines W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell 1997
Swift Is Worse XVIII The Broken Bridge XIX A Nervy Specialist XX Just in Time XXI "Will He Live?" XXII Off to the Meet XXIII The Great Race XXIV Won by a Length XXV Home Again--Conclusion TOM SWIFT AND HIS SKY RACER Chapter One The Prize Offer "Is this Tom Swift, the inventor of several airships?" The man who had rung the bell glanced at the youth who answered his summons.
Tom Swift and his Sky Racer Victor Appleton 1997
They stood close to his elbow whilst his slender, nervy hand wandered along the shiny surface of the varnished paper.
El Dorado Baroness Orczy 1999

Quotes with NERVY (3)

These are the ushers of Martius: before him He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie, Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die.
William Shakespeare Coriolanus
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun.
Stephen King Misery
Dreams are nervy things — all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.
Lloyd Jones Mister Pip
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 37 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).