Usually means: Nervous, easily startled or anxious.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. jumpy: Merriam-Webster
  2. jumpy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jumpy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jumpy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jumpy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jumpy, jumpy: Wordnik
  7. jumpy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jumpy: Wiktionary
  9. jumpy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jumpy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jumpy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jumpy, jumpy: Dictionary.com
  13. jumpy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. jumpy: Rhymezone
  15. jumpy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. jumpy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. jumpy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. jumpy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. jumpy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jumpy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jumpy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jumpy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jumpier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Nervous and excited.
adjective:  Tending to jump; full of jumps.

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