Adjective

(er)

(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.

(British) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.

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, year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=John Percy , title=Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report , work=the Telegraph citation , page= , passage= Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenalin rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham.}}

(archaic) Strong; sinewy.

his nervy knees — Keats.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.

(obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.

(astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).

Merry; cheerful and good-humored.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial —thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}