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What does nervy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nervy? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.
  2. (Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
  3. (archaic) Strong; sinewy.
  4. (technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
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He is a nervy, jumpy sort of a chap, who follows people with his eyes as they move about a room.
They were nervy sorts, fidgety, who watched your hands as you used the mobile or hunted in your bag for something but would never catch your eye.
With the threat of relegation hanging over both teams, the early exchanges were nervy, but evenly-matched.
The nervous and nervy man couldn't believe that life was treating him so badly.
But then we got a bit nervy and sat back and that's something that we're going to have to address again in training.
Blue-chip shares were left teetering at the 4000 mark yesterday as nervy investors continued to fret over the global economy.

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