Usually means: Bold, daring, and somewhat impudent.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. nervy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nervy: Merriam-Webster
  3. nervy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nervy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nervy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nervy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nervy, nervy: Wordnik
  8. nervy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nervy: Wiktionary
  10. nervy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nervy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nervy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Nervy, nervy: Dictionary.com
  14. Nervy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. nervy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. nervy: Rhymezone
  17. nervy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. nervy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. nervy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. nervy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nervy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nervy: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See nervier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.
adjective:  (British) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
adjective:  (archaic) Strong; sinewy.
adjective:  (technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.

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