jumpily

jumpily

1999, Dec 20. Sabine Durrant interview with Jamie Theakston in

,But when I sympathise and say that dating a pop star cant have helped, he says jumpily: "I think its important to remember that when I started going out with her, she wasnt famous.


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  • jumpily — jumpy ► ADJECTIVE (jumpier, jumpiest) informal 1) anxious and uneasy. 2) stopping and starting abruptly. DERIVATIVES jumpily adverb jumpiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • jumpily — adv. with sudden nervous movements, anxiously, apprehensively …   English contemporary dictionary

  • jumpily — jumpˈily adverb • • • Main Entry: ↑jump …   Useful english dictionary

  • jumpy — jumpily, adv. jumpiness, n. /jum pee/, adj., jumpier, jumpiest. 1. subject to sudden, involuntary starts, esp. from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc. 2. characterized by sudden starts, jerks, or jumps: a jumpy narrative. [1865 70; JUMP + Y1]… …   Universalium

  • unevenly — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. roughly, intermittently, irregularly, spottily, bumpily, with friction, haphazardly, wobbling, bumping, stumbling, hopping, jumpily, jumping, as if corrugated, all up and down, staggering; see also irregularly …   English dictionary for students

  • jumpy — adjective (jumpier, jumpiest) informal 1》 anxious and uneasy. 2》 stopping and starting abruptly. Derivatives jumpily adverb jumpiness noun …   English new terms dictionary

  • jumpy — adjective worried or excited especially because you are expecting something bad to happen jumpily adverb jumpiness noun (U) junction / dZVNkSn/ noun (C) a place where one road, track etc joins another: the junction of Abbot s Road and Church… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • bhōi- : bhǝi- : bhī- (bhii̯ǝ-) —     bhōi : bhǝi : bhī (bhii̯ǝ )     English meaning: to fear     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘sich fũrchten”     Material: O.Ind. bháyatē “be afraid “ (from *bhǝi̯ etai = Slav. bojetъ), Av. bayente, byente “they are in fear”, M.Pers. bēsünd “ they… …   Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

  • jumpiness — jumpy ► ADJECTIVE (jumpier, jumpiest) informal 1) anxious and uneasy. 2) stopping and starting abruptly. DERIVATIVES jumpily adverb jumpiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • jumpy — ► ADJECTIVE (jumpier, jumpiest) informal 1) anxious and uneasy. 2) stopping and starting abruptly. DERIVATIVES jumpily adverb jumpiness noun …   English terms dictionary

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