"Nippy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From nippy (“speedy”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Nippies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Nippys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "+",
        "2": "Nippys"
      },
      "expansion": "Nippy (plural Nippies or Nippys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Judith Walkowitz, Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London, page 195",
          "text": "It was the task of the Lyons' waitress, the Nippy, groomed and trained by the management to be an efficient public servant, to mediate between patrons and the establishment as well as between different classes and tastes […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Paul Chrystal, Tea: A Very British Beverage",
          "text": "The Nippy became a national icon, symbolic of the girl next door, always approachable and proper; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A waitress in a Lyons Corner House."
      ],
      "id": "en-Nippy-en-noun-ZjqPvHft",
      "links": [
        [
          "waitress",
          "waitress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical) A waitress in a Lyons Corner House."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪpi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Nippy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From nippy (“speedy”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Nippies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Nippys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "+",
        "2": "Nippys"
      },
      "expansion": "Nippy (plural Nippies or Nippys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "British English",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪpi",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪpi/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Judith Walkowitz, Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London, page 195",
          "text": "It was the task of the Lyons' waitress, the Nippy, groomed and trained by the management to be an efficient public servant, to mediate between patrons and the establishment as well as between different classes and tastes […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Paul Chrystal, Tea: A Very British Beverage",
          "text": "The Nippy became a national icon, symbolic of the girl next door, always approachable and proper; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A waitress in a Lyons Corner House."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "waitress",
          "waitress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical) A waitress in a Lyons Corner House."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪpi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Nippy"
}