English Dictionary

nervy

/ˈnɜː.vi/

adj

(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen. / (Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. / (archaic) Strong; sinewy. / (technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.

She is a nervy girl who always speaks her mind.

意味（1）

(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.

It takes a nervy man to promulgate such stuff, and Ted Nelson has made a career out of being nervy.

意味（2）

(Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.

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.

意味（3）

(archaic) Strong; sinewy.

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 […]

意味（4）

(technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.