Zippy

Definition: Zippy

Zippy

Adjective

1. Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze".

2. Marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Zippy

I'm Zippy Longstockings! (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Zizzi's zippy zipper zips. (references; author: unknown)

Dr. Zippy Opens a Sanatorium (1916)

Henry W. Zippy Buys a Pet Pup (1916)

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Books

• Rizzo's Zippy, Zany Puns: Paint W/Water (reference)

  (more book examples)

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It's the same man. Last May -- last July -- about now -- and the first real zippy, cold morning this fall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

plot vrull (high-spirited, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, zestful), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفعم بالحيوية (active, animate, animated, brisk, dynamic, energetic, full of energy, full of life, full of vigor, lively, lusty, peppy, spirited, sprightly, vigorous, vital, vivacious), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, snappy, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy). (various references)

Farsi 

پرنیرو (Peppy), پرازوزوز, طرسروصدا. (various references)

French

vif, plein d'entrain, nerveux. (various references)

German

zackig (brisk, craggy, dynamic, jagged, pointed, pronged, smart, snappish), spritzig (lively, nippy, piquant, sparkling, tangy, witty, zappy), flott (brisk, briskly, dashing, glamorous, glamourous, jauntily, lively, nifty, nippy, perky, punchy, quick, racy, saucy, slippy, smart, smartly, snazzily, snazzy, speedy, sporty, Spruce, sprucely, swift, swiftly, vigorous), flink (adroit, agile, alert, brisk, briskly, deft, keen, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, rapid, slippy, smart, swift, swiftly), belebend (animatedly, animating, enlivening, freshening, invigorating, variegating, vitalizing, vivifying). (various references)

Greek 

ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile), εύθυμοσ (blithe, chirpy, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, sprightly). (various references)

Hungarian

villámgyors, rámenõs (brash, dashing, go ahead, pushful, red blooded). (various references)

Italian

vigoroso (energetic, Hale, hearty, hefty, lusty, nervous, peppy, pithy, powerful, robust, rude, spirited, strenuous, strong, vigorous). (various references)

Pig Latin

ippyzay

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful), vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, hale, hard, healthful, healthy, hefty, lively, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppy, pithy, racy, red-blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, venturous, vigorous, virile, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful), cheio de vida (vivacious), cheio de energia (sanguineous, sappy, vital), animado (active, adroit, agile, alert, animate, cheerful, chirk, exhilarated, fleet, graphic, graphical, heartwarming, keen, spirited, sprightly, vivacious, warm). (various references)

Russian 

яркий (bright, clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glaring, glowing, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, psychedelic, shiny, showy, sinewy, sunbright, vivid), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

energičan (driving, energetic, forcible, frisky, peppy, vigorous). (various references)

Spanish

enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, snappy, spirited, sprightly, strenuous, strong, sturdy, telling, vigorous, vital), animado (alive, animate, animated, buoyed up, busy, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, ebullient, enlivens, freshens, jazzy, lively, pert, sprightly, upbeat). (various references)

Swedish

klämmig (gingery, peppy, rakish, spunky). (various references)

Thai

มีชีวิตชีวา (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (live). (various references)

Turkish

hareketli (active, alive and kicking, animate, bouncing, brisk, bustling, full of action, go-go, like a jack-in-the-box, live, mobile, moving, rattling, restless, shifting, sliding, swinging), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged), enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, gingery, high pressure, lively, peppy, rustling, springy, vibrant, vigorous, virile, warm blooded), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it). (various references)

Ukrainian

спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake), швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, snappy, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful), енергійний (active, aggressive, arduous, deedful, eager, energetic, energetical, fell, go ahead, managing, pithy, pushful, red blooded, spirited, spiritful, spirituous, strenuous, two-fisted, up and coming). (various references)

Misspellings

"Zippy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ippi, rippy, zappa, zappy, zepp, zipa, zipe, Zipf, zipi, zipo, zipp, zippo, zipt, zipy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pipy.

-2 letters: pip, yip, zip.

-3 letters: pi.