nippy

Preposition: around

• town: Acceleration in the manual is nippy around town but tails off as speed rises.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: Apparently it gets a bit nippy in the winter too.

Modifies a noun

• striker: Player to watch: Andy Johnson The nippy striker is Palace's leading goalscorer this season with 14 in all competitions.
• car: The result was a miracle of ' package efficiency ' which carried four adults in a smaller, nippier car.
• player: Another nippy player, this time signed by Fergie during the long hot summer of Michael Knighton, was Danny Wallace.
• winger: Johnson combined with Wayne Routledge, leaving the nippy winger the simple chance of drilling his shot into the corner of the net.
• day: It was going to be a nippy day in the landscaped dells of Blenheim Park.
• sweetie: A wee nippy sweetie with a long-lasting finish. cask no.

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: I have opted for the slightly slower but still pretty nippy ATI Radeon 7500.
• quite: Some can be quite nippy, which makes the Dash Hoop come in quite handy.
• very: They sound great when they buzz by and they are very nippy.
• fairly: LANcaster 24-01-2003, 15:25 You could get a Leon Cupra, they are fairly nippy!
• really: When we came out, it was really nippy and we had to wrap up for the final run through Wolsingham to Bishop Auckland.
• extremely: It may not be straightforward, but the Coolpix is extremely nippy for a non-SLR, and considerably smaller.

Used with adjective complement

• get: In the center there's highlands over 2,000m and it can get pretty nippy up there I can tell you.
• feel: Around town the engine felt quite nippy, although I wasn't sure about the gearbox.

Preposition: in

• winter: Apparently it gets a bit nippy in the winter too.