Definition of “nervy”

But as has been so often the case with the Rams they became nervy and quickly allowed the visitors back into the game.

But what novels can do, if sufficiently nervy and incautious, is bluff their way onto the front page.

Dermot had been nervy from the start, too jittery even to get much sleep when not at the wheel.

Every formulation I concoct is nervy , self-pitying, and paranoid.

Her parents had a stormy relationship and Jackie was a nervy child prone to nightmares.

Latham said his opponent had looked nervy and indecisive, and joked that he thought the Colonel might have needed some help from the bench.

She didn't look nervy or anything, although it wasn't calmness either.

She'd felt the water with her long, nervy , trembly fingers.

They're a hustling, nervy , knowing lesson in how to dry hump the Strokes/ Jam-adoring New Wave to within an inch of its dignity.