nippy

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Also the Google web-based apps are not as nippy as apps written for the iPhone.

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Quick take

a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese"

adjective

pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nippy.

adjective

a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese"

adjective

pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"

See also: crisp, frosty, nipping, snappy

Example sentences

Also the Google web-based apps are not as nippy as apps written for the iPhone.

Deployment time from the IDE is also pretty nippy.

One of their PMs got a little nippy at me when I made a very similar complaint.

The newer Intel ones are pretty nippy even with the Celeron badge.

Just because you invent "really cold, bordering on quite nippy" doesn't mean you can overlook things like half lives and red shift.

Works great on my desktop as it very nippy without bloat but the laptop was the best to benefit as I can easily get an extra hour or two from the battery life because of it.

I used nippy originally, then later Java serialization libraries once it became clear optimization was required.

If you want a frightening thought then try it's main competitor: Netscape Navigator 4!I remember Opera was my browser of choice around that time, it was a seriously nippy browser back then, way ahead of it's time.