Definitions
moving quickly and lightly
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 holding”), both from niman (“to take”) + -el, -ol (associative suffix), corresponding to nim + -le. Compare German nehmen, Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman), Old Norse nema (“to take”). More at nim.
Used in a sentence
“nimble fingers”
“He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.”
“Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Quick and agile”6 letters
02“Quick and light”6 letters
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