Nimble

//ˈnɪmbl̩//

Definitions

1
Adept at taking or grasping.
nimble fingers
2
Quick and light in movement or action.
He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
3
Quickwitted and alert.
He has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.

1
To move nimbly.
Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.

Word Origin

From Middle English nymyl, nemel, nemyll, nymell (“agile, quick, ready, able, capable”), merger of Old English nǣmel (“receptive, quick to grasp”) and Old English numol (“able to take, capable of hold...

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