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Meanings of jumpy in English

Being in a tense state.

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Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.

Usage of jumpy in English
1
Hope that target's stationary: Horizontal tracking was jumpy in high-level stabilization mode.
Wired
2
But he often seemed jumpy and lacking in confidence with the Yankees.
The Yankee Years
3
Like I say, it's all a game, but they're pretty jumpy today.
Swan Song
4
Well, when it came to being jumpy, he had company-plentyof it.
Talk of the town
5
Just the thought of him made her all jumpy and nervous inside.
Our little secret
6
Police had been annoying us all day and everybody was getting jumpy.
The Guardian
7
She'd never seen Rose so jumpy and she wished she knew why.
East of the sun
8
There is no room for a jumpy, excitable man in the trenches.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
9
Viva, looking pale and jumpy, turned up later for the drinks party.
East of the sun
10
She felt jumpy, and her skin was alive with a thousand prickles.
The girl who chased the moon: a novel
11
Maybe a jumpy lookout post mistook our own Zeros for enemy planes.
Number9Dream
12
Or was she just being overly jumpy because of the store incident?
My deadly valentine
13
Caitlin sat with her hands in her lap, feeling jumpy and strange.
The Perfectionists
14
I was jumpy - I had heightened awareness of everything around me.
BBC
15
I could see he was jumpy, so I thought I'd humour him.
The Killer
16
That jumpy feeling in my stomach solidified into a block of ice.
Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
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Jumpy through the time
Jumpy across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common