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Definition of zippy adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• a zippy little car

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• The tomato sauce has a zippy tang.
• a lively, zippy show

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History | January 22, 2024

The Couple Who Fell in Love in a Nazi Death Camp

A new book chronicles the unlikely connection between Helen Spitzer and David Wisnia, both of whom survived Auschwitz

Keren Blankfeld

Author,  Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story

Helen Zipora “Zippi” Spitzer and David Wisnia knew that each moment they survived in Auschwitz-Birkenau , Nazi Germany’s most notorious death camp, could be their last. Both had seen their share of death; both had experienced close calls. Zippi , a 23-year-old Slovakian with a passion for graphic design, was among the first Jews transported to Auschwitz in March 1942. David arrived nine months later, a 16-year-old Polish Jew who loved to sing . Both had lost their families and homes, and now they were imprisoned in squalid conditions for the “crime” of being Jewish.

A new book, Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story , chronicles the unlikely romance born within a world that cultivated human ashes. When she first arrived, Zippi was charged with lifting heavy stones. David was forced to carry emaciated bodies of dead prisoners. With grit, persistence and some luck, they survived. David sang to his captors, while Zippi drew them diagrams with camp statistics. Each became a “ privileged prisoner,” awarded extra rations and safer jobs. While the camp death toll rose, Zippi found ways to resist the Nazis, ways to be in places where she shouldn’t have been. This is how it began, how Zippi found David and how two prisoners found a love that transcended the terror around them.

Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story

The true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war—and then find each other again more than 70 years later.

David knew that Zippi was no regular inmate. He’d caught glimpses of her, heard the rumors. Nicknamed “Zippi of the office,” she was the “graphic designer” at the Auschwitz women’s camp , charged with creating statistical diagrams for the Nazis. She came by frequently, finding excuses to be there—to see him, he suspected. When she appeared, he found reasons to brush past her. She was clean and neat. But it was her scent that was the most tantalizing. It was like nothing he could describe. Perhaps it was just that she was a woman, a rarity in his world; either way, she was new, refreshing.

For weeks after their first encounter, likely in early 1943, Zippi and David stole glances at each other, trying not to be obvious. Around them, the guards circled, eager to torture and destroy any inmates who stepped out of line. David would graze her sleeve; she’d murmur a soft hello.

She was pursuing him, he thought, elated. Imagine that: a woman. The very idea was outrageous—and yet … No doubt she’d noticed his tailored striped uniform. No doubt she saw that he was in good shape, healthy. She must have heard about him, the attractive, healthy young man who worked at the Sauna , the building where clothing was disinfected. Yes, David was certain of it. Someone had told Zippi about him, and now she had come to see for herself. She must’ve liked what she saw; she kept coming back.

After what felt like months, someone made an introduction. She was dressed better than any other woman there. She even wore a nice jacket. No one else seemed to be looking at them. David understood some Slovak and could say a few words—it was close enough to Polish. They both also spoke Hebrew, and David understood some German, so perhaps their exchange was peppered with a bit of each language. But that first exchange was so brief—really just long enough to agree to speak again. Zippi would return to see him at the Sauna.

David was all nerves. This was taboo! How was it that he speaking to a woman? In here? She knew people—he had heard, of course, but he hadn’t realized the extent of her connections. She knew officials, she knew male inmates and she knew how to get the guards to look the other way. She was important, and she was experienced at getting what she wanted. She could’ve had anyone, but she’d chosen him. Out of every inmate in the camp, she’d chosen him.

David swooned at the thought. At 16, he’d already experienced so much, and yet nothing at all. When he was 14, he’d had one romantic liaison in Warsaw—a rite of passage. An initiation. He was ready for more. But could it really happen here, of all places?

The first time they spoke, David had felt it was just the two of them. Later, replaying the moment in his head, he would wonder about the other inmates, where they’d gone. In his memory, it felt as though they’d left the room—disappeared. But that couldn’t be. He would try to remember what she’d said, what he’d said. But the words eluded him. A woman had been within his reach, her breath soft against his—that was all that mattered.

They began to send each other notes through messengers. Small scraps, nothing that might incriminate them. From time to time, by design, their paths would cross, their whispers hot against the fabric of their uniforms. In time, he’d forget the exact exchange, but her phantom breath against his cheek lingered, the light touch of a finger, a hidden smile, the hope for something more.

David was navigating Auschwitz with relative comfort—perhaps too much comfort. It began with the weather. You could never get warm enough during the wintertime, when the frigid Polish wind burned through thin layers of clothing. Given the opportunity, the Sauna was among the few places where inmates could warm up. David had learned to take these chances when he could, even when he probably shouldn’t.

One Sunday afternoon in March 1943, David woke in the Sauna with a start. He and the other workers had finished hanging the disinfected clothes by noon. Sunday’s afternoon roll call was at 1 p.m. With less than an hour to lie down on the concrete floor and enjoy the rare warmth emanating from around him, David shut his eyes to rest in his sanitized, poisonous cocoon.

By the time he’d blinked the sleep out of his eyes, he’d realized that he was alone. Everyone else was lined up outside. His so-called friends could have woken him up, but they’d left him there. And now David was missing the roll call.

He looked out the window. Column after column of pale prisoners, row after row, always in fives, stood at attention. Guards paced dirt roads, batons in hand, and spat out commands under the gnarled trees. They’d clearly been standing in the bitter cold for some time now.

They were looking for him, David realized in a panic. He knew he had grown to be important, but he must be more important than he’d thought to have all these people stop on his behalf.

He crept outside, trying to make himself invisible. His gaze turned to his cellblock. Men stood in their familiar positions, cramped rows of tired, vacant eyes. David ran past the ditch in the middle of the campground—the same one where he’d labored with the Leichenkommando , or corpse squad. He shuffled along the electric fence toward his barracks, trying to hide between inmates and slip in unnoticed. But no one would cover for him; the stakes were too high.

The guards spotted the latecomer. They pushed David to the front of the rows, sludge splattering underneath their feet. The ground was covered with the residue of the previous night’s mix of rain and snow. A guard dragged David past the ditch from which he’d once hauled out fresh corpses and deposited him in front of a syrup-brown puddle. This is it, David thought. They’re going to kill me—no doubt about it.

As David faced the lagerführer , the commander in charge of the warehouse, he felt the eyes of thousands of men—maybe even as many as 50,000—on him. Only one thing kept him from complete despair: If he had been an unknown newcomer, he thought, he’d be done for, executed on the spot. But he’d been there for almost five months. In Auschwitz, surviving this long should bode well—it suggested important connections. His ruby cheeks indicated he was healthy, useful. David, like Zippi, understood how much appearances mattered here.

“You make one move and dirty my boots and you’re dead,” an officer said, loud enough for his boss to hear. He poked at David’s ribs with a meat hook. “You’re dead right here.”

David’s shoes were covered in mud. Over the years, the earth below him had absorbed the blood of countless inmates. The infamous ditch had held bodies dead and alive. Now, staring at the sharp edge of a meat hook inches from his chest, he willed his body not to move.

The officer had winked at David—he was almost sure of it.

The man sent David back to his bunk.

Back in the barracks, David was sure his punishment wasn’t over. It couldn’t be. He’d seen the SS officer write down his number. His breathing was shallow. There was no way they’d let him off like that. His friend Szaja had missed roll call and for that had received 50 lashes on his backside and a permanent limp.

No, he thought, this wasn’t over.

The next day, David woke up covered in sweat, burning with fever. The muscles along his thin arms and legs throbbed, his head ached, his stomach was sore. He was visibly sick and couldn’t hide it. David had typhoid fever . He was sent off to the infirmary in Block 7.

Weak and dehydrated, all he got was a mysterious tea-coffee concoction. There’d be no medicine, no such frills. Most prisoners came here to die.

But once again, David was in luck. Inmates he’d befriended at the Sauna smuggled over food and water. Within days, he was healthy enough to return to his block and get back to work.

He was mystified. He couldn’t shake the feeling that he was in the eye of a storm. He was sure an example would be made of him: The SS would not pass up the chance to showcase its power, to demonstrate the consequences of not living by its rules. David awoke each morning in dread. The reason behind the delay finally hit him: He had to be healthy enough to suffer.

A few days later, a guard slashed a whip across David’s hands ten times. In the days that followed, his palms swelled, dripping with pus and burning with infection.

Next, an officer ordered David to follow him to a room. David saw a noose. Gallows had been set up. This is it, he thought; this is how it ends. A group of SS men stood by—an audience. One tightened the noose around David’s neck as his buddies watched with giddy anticipation. An officer kicked a plank out from under David’s feet.

His death would be a blur.

He dropped down into a hole that was at least six feet deep. The men around him guffawed at their joke: The noose around David’s neck hadn’t been tied.

Down on his knees, for better or for worse, David was very much alive.

David’s mock hanging was his initiation into the Strafkompanie , or penal colony, where he was admitted on March 19, 1943, and where he served for the next three months. Inmates who’d committed the most serious crimes but who’d been spared a public hanging landed here. The Strafkompanie was known for its brutal torture tactics. Earlier on, it had been housed inside Block 11 , known as the “death block” in the main camp. The block contained a dungeon and “standing cells” in its basement, where prisoners suffering the most severe punishments were confined to sleep at night.

By the time David was incarcerated, the Strafkompanie had been relocated to Block 1 in Birkenau, a dark, dusty, overcrowded space where prisoners slept in bare beds made of wooden boards. Inmates were isolated from the other prisoners. They worked longer, more grueling hours, pushing wheelbarrows of gravel and digging the central drainage ditch. Their work was more strenuous, yet they received smaller rations. While prisoner functionaries known as kapos ran much of the camp, SS officers took a special interest in supervising the Strafkompanie, where they would give random beatings, carry out torture and enjoy shooting sprees. The kapos directly supervising the penal company were among the camp’s most unscrupulous criminals, depraved outcasts who were said to enjoy crushing Jewish men’s testicles with a wooden hammer on a board.

Day after day, David went out to dig ditches. He was whipped on the back when he moved too slowly, whipped again when he was too quick to pick up a shovel. He no longer received extra rations. He no longer sang. Supervisors smacked him across the face on a whim.

Six days passed—maybe more, maybe less. Days were no longer relevant. The warmth of the Sauna, the flicker of a connection with Zippi were unthinkable. Survival was minute by minute. David was losing weight and strength. He was sure he was never going to leave the penal colony alive.

And then one day, without warning, he was ordered not to go to work.

Without reason or explanations, David was ordered to stay inside. He was not to join the others at the Strafkompanie, not today, not tomorrow. From then on, David was relegated to simple indoor chores: no more beatings, no more backbreaking work.

Someone must have been looking out for him, he thought. Someone must have known that he was on the brink, that he wouldn’t survive another day of hard labor. Perhaps Georg, his Sauna supervisor, was looking out for him. Georg liked him. He was kind. “Yes,” thought David, “Georg probably found a way to bribe the SS.”

David would spend what was left of his three-month sentence in the penal ward cleaning the barracks and enjoying the extra rations that had suddenly begun finding their way to him.

By June 1943, he was back at work at the Sauna. David felt as though he’d become even more important, having survived the penal ward—no small feat.

It likely didn’t take long before Zippi made an appearance at the Sauna, supposedly for a shower. He soon realized she was taking showers almost every day. Their glances and brief exchanges continued, as though they’d never stopped. A note from Zippi made its way to him; he wrote her back.

Either now or in months to come, he would tell her about his prewar visits to the opera with his father. They would share their love for music, memories of better times.

He would have never thought he’d be in a relationship with a woman here. Never. It was inconceivable. And yet here they were.

Excerpted from Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld . Copyright © 2024 by Keren Blankfeld. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group Inc., New York, USA. All rights reserved.

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• (at) full speed/tilt/pelt idiom
• as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
• as if it is going out of style idiom
• at a rate of knots idiom
• in the twinkling of an eye idiom
• Jack Robinson
• lickety-split
• light speed
• speed of light
• spread like wildfire idiom
• super-express

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• zippy, a. in OED Second Edition (1989)

What does the adjective zippy mean?

There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective zippy . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

How common is the adjective zippy ?

How is the adjective zippy pronounced, british english, u.s. english, where does the adjective zippy come from.

Earliest known use

The earliest known use of the adjective zippy is in the 1880s.

OED's earliest evidence for zippy is from 1889, in the Boston Globe .

zippy is formed within English, by derivation.

Etymons: zip n. 1 , ‑y suffix 1 .

Nearby entries

• zipper foot, n. 1938–
• zipperhead, n. 1967–
• zipper problem, n. 1985–
• Zippie, n.¹ 1968–
• zippie, n.² 1986–
• zippily, adv. 1924–
• zippiness, n. 1907–
• zipping, n. 1868–
• Zippo, n.¹ 1944–
• zippo, n.² 1973–
• zippy, adj. 1889–
• zip tie, n. 1969–
• zip-tie, v. 1985–
• zip top, n. 1926–
• zip-up, adj. & n. 1927–
• zip wire, n. 1971–
• zir, pron. 1993–
• zir, adj. 1993–
• ziraleet, n. 1794–
• ziram, n. 1950–
• zirbal, adj. ?a1425–

Meaning & use

The zippy going-off of the ricotchetty and riproarious ripper [ i.e. a firecracker] delighteth not their hearts.

The engine warms up rapidly and provides zippy acceleration.

He drives extremely fast in tiny violent bursts between traffic lights and snarl-ups, as if he can't bear to let his zippy car idle at a tame and tedious thirty.

The morning walks..quickly moved up into longer stretches and zippy speeds that wore out both of us!

• swift Old English– ‘Moving far in a short time’ (Johnson); moving, or capable of moving, with great speed or velocity; going quickly or at a great rate; rapid, fleet.
• quick c1300– Moving, or able to move, with speed; swift; doing something swiftly or in a short time.
• hastive a1325–1450 Speedy, swift; urgent. Cf. hasty , adj. A.1.
• hasty c1330– Speedy, quick; swift in motion or action; (also) sudden. Now archaic and rare , except as passing into A.1b.
• ingnel 1340 Quick, swift.
• swifty c1380– Swift.
• speedful a1387– Speedy, quick, swift, rapid. Now rare .
• current a1393–1837 With reference to physical movement, esp. of water or another flowing substance: running, flowing. Obsolete .
• fast a1400– Of action, movement, or progress: †vigorous, forceful ( obsolete ). Hence: (of pace, activity, etc.) quick, rapid, swift. Cf. fast , adv. A.I.5c and…
• swipping c1420–50 (a) n. Striking; (b) adj. moving quickly.
• speedy 1487– Moving, or able to move, with speed; going or travelling quickly; swift.
• fleet 1528– Characterized by power of swift onward movement; swift, nimble. Said primarily of living beings, their limbs and movements; hence of things viewed…
• tite ?a1540–1600 Quick, swift; (also) eager, willing, ready. Obsolete .
• scudding 1545– That scuds, in senses of the verb.
• flighty 1552– Swift, quick, fleet. rare .
• suddenly 1556 Used as adj. Quick, rapid. Obsolete . rare .
• flight 1581–1642 Swift, fleet, fast-moving.
• feathered 1587– That is, or seems to be, supplied with wings; winged, fleet.
• Pegasean 1590– Of, relating to, or characteristic of Pegasus. Also: resembling Pegasus, esp. in his capacity for winged flight; (hence) poetically inspired or…
• wing-footed 1591– Having winged feet, swiftly-moving; also figurative .
• swift-winged ?1592– Having swift wings, flying swiftly, rapid in flight ( literal and figurative ).
• thought-swift-flying 1595 That flies as swift as thought.
• wind-winged ?1596–
• swallow-winged 1597– (a) Swift as the swallow; (b) shaped like a swallow's wings; also (of a ship), having sails of such a shape.
• lark-footed 1607 Swift, light-footed.
• Pegasarian 1607 = Pegasean , adj.
• skelping 1607– That skelps, in various senses; also, big, large, lusty.
• rapid 1608– Moving, or capable of moving, with speed; swift, fast.
• night-swift a1616–
• celerious 1632 Swift, fleet.
• clipping 1635– That clips, or cuts with shears; that flies or moves fast.
• volatile 1655– Characterized by rapid passage. rare .
• pernicious 1658–1835 Rapid, swift, nimble.
• quick-foot 1658 Swift, quick-footed. Obsolete .
• meteorous 1667–1882 Of the nature of or resembling a meteor (in various senses); of or relating to atmospheric or meteorological phenomena; meteoric.
• windy 1697 Resembling the wind in storminess, quality of sound, swiftness, †changefulness, etc.
• high-flying 1710 Swift, fast. Cf. high-flyer , n. II.6. Obsolete .
• fleet-footed 1726– Fleet of foot, swift in movement; also figurative .
• aliped 1727– Having winged feet; (hence) swift, nimble.
• wick c1760– = quick , adj.
• velocious 1775– Rapid.
• flight-performing 1785–
• fast-going 1800– That moves, travels, or works at a fast speed; fast-moving.
• fast-moving 1802– That moves or goes quickly; travelling at a fast speed.
• meteor 1803– Of short duration, passing rapidly, transient. rare .
• wight-wapping 1830– Moving rapidly, or characterized by such movement.
• fleety 1841– = fleet , adj.¹ 1.
• speeding 1847– Moving with speed.
• swiftening 1848–
• two-forty 1855– An expression for a high speed (originally spec. at the rate of a mile in 2 min. 40 sec., formerly a ‘record’ pace for trotting).
• fire-swift 1865–
• pennate 1870 Winged. In quot. figurative : very swift. Obsolete . rare .
• spinning 1882– colloquial . Rapid, fast.
• percursory 1884 humorous . Running or moving quickly.
• zippy 1889– Characterized by rapid movement; fast, speedy. Cf. zip , v.¹ 1a.
• meteoric 1895– figurative . Flashing or dazzling like a meteor, transiently or irregularly brilliant; rapid, swift; appearing suddenly.
• pacy 1906– Originally British colloquial . Having much pace or speed; fast-moving; progressing quickly. Frequently in extended use (esp. applied to drama…
• presto 1952– Music . Played in a fast tempo; quick. Also in extended use.

As for Vivian, our bright-eyed little Daughter, she is the zippiest little High-Flyer that speeds the Boulevard.

It bubbles o'er with song and jest, Its fun is keen and ‘ zippy ’.

I'm going to write..something zippy to brighten the thing up a bit.

The March evening was zippy outside but cupped in it the breath of spring.

My cell phone's zippy disco ring tone startled me so badly I almost fell off the chair.

• lively Old English– Vigorous, energetic, active, brisk. Of a person, a person's physical or mental faculties, or an activity sustained by a person. Also of an animal.
• sprind Old English–1350 Vigorous, strong.
• kask c1300 Active, vigorous.
• wight c1300– Strong, vigorous, robust, stalwart, mighty; exercising strength, energetic (passing into A.3).
• courageous c1386–1577 Full of virile force; lively, lusty, vigorous.
• wieldy a1413–1916 Capable of moving with ease; physically able ( to do something); vigorous, active; agile, nimble. Obsolete .
• able c1440– Now Scottish , Irish English ( northern ), and Newfoundland . Of a person, the body, etc.: having general physical strength; vigorous, powerful…
• wighty c1475– = wight , adj.
• tall of hand 1530–1632 Phrase tall of (his, her) hand(s) : sometimes, (cf. sense A.I.1) Ready, active, deft, skilful with (his, her) hands; dexterous, handy; sometimes, (cf…
• sappy 1558– figurative in various applications. Full of vitality.
• energical 1565–1883 Relating to, characterized by, or full of energy (in various senses); esp. operative; efficacious. Cf. energic , adj.
• energetical 1585– Characterized by or full of energy, force, or vitality; energetic; emphatic; vigorous; lively. Now rare .
• greeny a1586– Green; verdant. Also figurative : vigorous. Now rare .
• stout 1600–1711 Strenuous, energetic. Obsolete .
• strenuous 1602– Of persons or their dispositions: Vigorous in action, energetic; ‘brave, bold, active, valiant’ (Johnson). Now usually with stronger notion…
• forceful ?1624– Full of force, powerful, strong, vigorous.
• actuous 1626–1869 = actuose , adj.
• vigorous 1638– Of persons, etc.: Acting, or prepared to act, with vigour.
• vivid 1638– Full of life; vigorous, active, or energetic on this account; lively or brisk. Of persons (or animals), their attributes, etc.
• high-spirited 1653– Exhibiting or characterized by courage and spirit, or (later) liveliness and cheerful good humour.
• hearty 1665– Of a physical action: vigorous; performed with great energy.
• actuose 1677– Full of activity, abounding in action; active.
• living 1699– Full of life or vigour; fresh, vivid; lively, vibrant. Cf. lively , adj. A.3, A.5, A.6.
• full-blooded 1707– Originally: having or containing much blood. Later also: (of a person) having the qualities associated with a constitution rich in blood (cf. plet …
• executive 1708–1825 Active in execution, energetic. Obsolete . rare .
• rugged 1731– Chiefly U.S. Of a person: strong, sturdy; robust, vigorous.
• sousing 1735– Strong, vigorous, ‘powerful’. Now dialect .
• energic 1740– Of movement, activity, etc.: characterized by or carried out with vigour or force; emphatic. Also of a person, group, etc.: full of energy…
• bouncing 1743 That bounces: in various senses of the verb relating alike to loudness, brag, and vigorous or ungainly movement. Often also (like ‘thumping…
• two-fisted 1774– (a) ( dialect or colloquial ), awkward with the hands, clumsy; (b) U.S. colloquial , tough, aggressive; vigorous; (c) Tennis of a backhand stroke…
• energetic 1782– Of a person, group, etc.: full of energy or vitality; strenuously active; vigorous; (also) dynamic; spirited; lively.
• zestful 1797– figurative . Full of zest; invigorating, stimulating, enjoyable; lively, spirited; = zesty , adj. 2. Cf. zest , n.¹ 3, 4.
• rollicking 1801– Of an action, behaviour, song, etc.: characterized by vivaciousness or boisterousness.
• through-ganging 1814–1923 Active, energetic, spirited. Cf. throughgoing , adj. 2a.
• throughgoing 1814– Chiefly Scottish , Irish English ( northern ), and U.S. regional . Of a person: that gets through work quickly or thoroughly; active, energetic…
• slashing 1828– Spirited; dashing; full of vigour. Now used esp. of horses.
• high-powered 1829– Of a machine or device: having greater than normal strength or capabilities; very powerful. Also in extended use: of high quality.
• high pressure 1834– Involving or characterized by a high degree of exertion, urgency, or coercion; spec. (with regard to selling) employing or involving highly…
• rip-roaring 1834– Full of energy and vigour; boisterous, wildly noisy; first-rate, exciting.
• red-blooded 1836– Vigorous, virile, full of energy and strength; (now) esp. (of a man) having strong heterosexual appetites.
• ripsnorting 1846– = rip-roaring , adj.
• zesty 1853– figurative . Characterized by energy or vigour; lively, spirited; invigorating, stimulating. Cf. zest , n.¹ 3.
• dynamic 1856– transferred and figurative . Active, potent, energetic, effective, forceful.
• throbbing 1864– figurative . That pulsates with energy, life, etc.; thrilling, exciting; vibrant, lively.
• kinky 1872– U.S. regional ( New England ). Esp. of a person or animal: energetic, lively, spirited; (in negative sense) difficult to manage, frisky. Now rare .
• goey 1875– Full of ‘go’; energetic, lively, vigorous; dynamic, enterprising.
• torpedoic 1893– Of a torpedo, like that of a torpedo.
• zippy 1903– Full of ‘zip’ ( zip , n.¹ B.1b); bright, lively, energetic; fresh, invigorating.
• go-at-it 1904– Full of energy, vitality, or determination.
• punchy 1907– Full of punch or impact; forceful, effective; vigorous.
• up-and-at-'em 1909–
• driving 1916– With reference to music: energetic, dynamic, forceful.
• vibrant a1929– Without const. Full of vitality, teeming, vigorous; exuberant, flourishing.
• kinetic 1931– transferred and figurative , esp. active, dynamic, full of energy.
• zinging 1931– That abounds with energy or excitement; vibrant, lively.
• high-octane 1936– figurative . Vigorous, energetic; powerful; very intense. Cf. octane , n. 3.
• zingy 1938– Energetic, exciting, vibrant; (of a remark, joke, etc.) witty, lively, and effective.
• slam-bang 1939– In weakened use: exciting, impressive, first-rate. Also, vigorous, energetic. colloquial .
• balls-to-the-wall 1967– Unrestrained, aggressive, forceful; all-out, ‘full-throttle’. Cf. balls-out , adv. & adj.
• balls-out 1968– Unrestrained, uninhibited; aggressive, extremely forceful, all-out.
• ass-kicking 1977– Forceful, aggressive.
• hi-octane 1977– = high-octane , adj. A.2.
• doing 1591– That does, acts, performs, etc.; spec. actively engaged or occupied, busy; energetic.
• mettled 1599– Of a person: = mettlesome , adj. 1c.
• spiritful 1599– Of a person, the mind, etc.: spirited; full of energy, vigour, or animation; assertive, determined, bold. Cf. spirited , adj. 2a.
• spirited 1601– Of a person: full of spirit; of a lively, animated, or energetic disposition; characterized by courageous, assertive, or determined behaviour. Also…
• mettle 1606–1896 ( attributive ). Spirited, feisty; lively, eager, willing. Also: brave, courageous. In later use Scottish and English regional ( northern ). Obsolete .
• free-spirited 1613– That is or has a free spirit; lively and independent; unconstrained by convention.
• high-mettled a1626– Having or characterized by considerable courage or spirit; (esp. of a horse) lively, headstrong. Cf. mettlesome , adj.
• spright 1658– Sprightly; lively, vigorous.
• racy 1671–1871 Of a person or personal attribute: having a distinctive lively or spirited quality; full of 'go'. Obsolete .
• mettlesome 1673– Of a person: high-spirited, vivacious, playful. Also: courageous, brave.
• dashing 1796– Characterized by prompt vigour of action; spirited, lively, impetuous.
• peppery 1829– figurative . In extended use: strong, powerful; lively, spirited; (in negative contexts) unpleasant, objectionable.
• spunky 1831– Characterized by animation or spirit.
• fizzy 1855– Given to fizz. Also figurative .
• smoking hot 1947– colloquial . Frequently in form smokin' hot . Originally Jazz . Very lively, energetic, or exciting; performing or performed at a very high level…

Apples with that zippy tang that a cold climate gives.

Ch. Potensac. Zippy little wine.

Bo kho, a beefy braise perfumed with star anise and zippy lemongrass.

• good Old English– Pleasing, appealing, or satisfying to the senses. Pleasant to eat or smell; tasty, appetizing; fragrant. Also in figurative contexts.
• liking Old English–1695 That is pleasing or likeable; pleasant, agreeable, attractive. Also (of food): tasty, delicious. Frequently with to .
• lickerous c1275–1603 Pleasing or tempting to the palate. Also gen. and figurative : Sweet, pleasant, delightful.
• delicious a1325– Extremely pleasing to the senses, esp. to the taste or smell; providing great sensual pleasure; delectable; (now usually) very appetizing, highly…
• dainty a1382– Pleasing to the palate, choice, delicate.
• dainteous c1386–1548 = dainty , adj.
• daintiful 1393–1440 = dainty , adj.
• delicate a1398– Of food or drink: very pleasing to the taste; delicious; choice. Now rare .
• merry a1398–1582 Of an odour: pleasant, fragrant. Of a fruit, plant, etc.: sweet-smelling, aromatic. Obsolete .
• savourly c1400– Having a pleasant taste or fragrance; full of savour (in various senses of the noun), savoury.
• licious c1420–1670 = delicious , adj. & n.
• savourous a1425– Having a (usually pleasant) flavour or odour; appetizing, fragrant.
• dainteth c1430–40 Obsolete .
• lusty c1430–50 Pleasing, pleasant. Obsolete . Pleasant to the taste. Obsolete .
• feelsome a1450– Pleasing to the senses.
• nutty a1450– Resembling a nut or nuts in flavour, colour, etc.
• seasonable a1475 Capable of serving as seasoning; tasty, savoury. Obsolete . rare .
• delicative c1475–1510 Delightful, luxurious; delicious; (of a person) given to or immoderatly fond of pleasure or luxury. Also as n. : a delicious or choice food, a…
• unctuous 1495– Of meat: Greasy, fat, rich. Now archaic .
• well-tasted a1500– Having a pleasant flavour; tasty. Also figurative . Now archaic and rare .
• daintive 1526 = dainty , n. , dainty , adj.
• savoury 1533– Of food or drink: having a salty, piquant, or ‘umami’ taste or flavour; not sweet. Also: of or relating to such food or drink. Cf. umami , n.
• exquisite 1561– Sought out, ‘recherché’. Of meat, drink, etc.: Carefully chosen; choice, dainty, delicious (passing into sense A.5).
• spicy 1562– Having the characteristic qualities of spice; of the nature of spice.
• well-relished ?1575–1826 Having a pleasant taste; very appetizing. Also figurative .
• finger-licking 1584– (a) n. The action or an act of licking the fingers, esp. to remove remnants of food after eating; (b) adv. so as to cause a person to lick his or…
• toothsome 1584– Pleasant to the taste, savoury, palatable: cf. tooth , n. I.2a.
• taste-pleasing a1586–
• daint 1590–1673 = dainty , adj.
• relishsome 1593– Relishable; tasty, appetizing.
• lickerish 1595–1728 Pleasant to the palate; gen. sweet, tempting, attractive; = lickerous , adj. 1. Of a cook: Skilful in preparing dainties. Obsolete .
• tastesome 1598 Pleasant to the taste; ‘tasty’, toothsome.
• friand 1599–1818 Dainty; delicious to the palate; fond of delicate food.
• tooth-tempting 1603–
• relishing 1605– Appetizing, relishable; enjoyable.
• well-relishing 1608–1838 Having a pleasant taste; = well-relished , adj. Also figurative .
• neat 1609–1857 Of preparations, esp. in cookery: skilfully or tastefully prepared; choice; elegant. Obsolete .
• hungry 1611– Causing or inducing hunger; appetizing. rare .
• palate-pleasing 1611–
• tasteful 1611– Having an agreeable taste; palatable, toothsome, tasty. Now rare .
• palate a1617 Pleasant to the palate or taste; palatable. Obsolete . rare .
• tasty a1617– Pleasing to the taste; appetizing, savoury.
• palatable 1619– Of food, drink, medicine, etc.: agreeable or acceptable to the palate; pleasant to the taste.
• toothful 1622 Pleasant to the taste: = toothsome , adj. Obsolete .
• sipid 1623– Savoury; = sapid , adj. 1.
• unsoured 1626– ( un- , prefix¹ affix 2. Cf. North Frisian unsürred , Middle Swedish osyrdh (Swedish osyrad ), older Danish usuret (Danish usyret ); Dutch ongezuurd …
• famelic 1631–51 Pertaining to hunger; in quots.: Exciting hunger, appetizing.
• tasteable a1641–1791 Pleasant to the taste; savoury, ‘tasty’. Obsolete .
• piquant 1645– Of food, etc.: having a (usually pleasantly) pungent or sharp taste; sharp; tangy; appetizing.
• sapid 1646– Of food, etc.: Readily perceptible by the organs of taste, having a decided taste or flavour; esp. having a pleasant taste, savoury, palatable.
• saporous a1670– Of or pertaining to taste; having flavour or taste; yielding some kind of taste. †Also, agreeable to the taste, savoury.
• slape 1671– Of ale: (see quots.).
• palative a1682– Appealing to the palate or taste. Also: of or relating to the palate.
• flavorous 1697– Full of flavour; pleasing to the taste and smell, savoury; ‘fragrant, odorous’ (Johnson).
• nice 1709– Of food or drink: dainty, choice; (later in weakened sense) tasty, appetizing; refreshing, restorative.
• well-flavoured 1717– Having a good natural flavour; flavourful.
• gusty 1721– Tasty, savoury, appetizing.
• flavoury 1727– = flavoursome , adj.
• fine-palated 1735– †(a) Having a pleasant taste, palatable ( obsolete rare ); (b) having a sophisticated palate ( palate , n. A.2a); appreciative of fine food and drink.
• unrepulsive 1787– Not repulsive.
• degustatory 1824– Pertaining to degustation; tasty.
• zesty 1826– Of a taste, smell, or food: piquant, tangy, agreeably sharp; flavoursome.
• peckish 1845 Appetizing. Obsolete . rare .
• mouth-watering 1847– That causes a flow of saliva into the mouth, appetizing; ( figurative ) desirable, highly attractive.
• flavoursome 1853– Full of flavour.
• unreasty 1853 Not rancid.
• unrancid a1855– Not rancid. Also figurative .
• relishy 1864– Appetizing, relishable.
• toothy 1864– Toothsome, palatable. rare .
• flavoured 1867– Having flavour; chiefly, having a specified flavour, indicated by some defining word as ill-flavoured , orange-flavoured , vanilla-flavoured , etc.
• tasty-looking 1867–
• hungrifying 1886– Appetizing.
• velvety 1888– Smooth and soft to the taste.
• snappy 1892– colloquial . Having a brisk smack or flavour.
• zippy 1911– Designating a zesty, tangy, or piquant flavour; (of food or drink) having such flavour.
• savoursome 1922– Having a pleasant or savoury taste or smell; (also) able to be savoured.
• delish 1953– Extremely pleasing to the senses; (chiefly) very tasty or appetizing. Sometimes of a person: very attractive. Cf. delicious , adj. A.1.
• appetizing 1653– Exciting a desire or longing, esp. for food; stimulating or whetting the appetite.
• moreish 1691– Of food or drink: that makes one want to have more. Occasionally in extended use.
• appetitive 1864– Giving an appetite; appetizing, attractive. rare .

Pronunciation

• ð th ee
• ɬ rhingy ll

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence <petal> /ˈpɛtl/ but <petally> /ˈpɛtl̩i/.

• a trap, bath
• ɑː start, palm, bath
• ɔː thought, force
• ᵻ (/ɪ/-/ə/)
• ᵿ (/ʊ/-/ə/)

Other symbols

• The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
• The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
• Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here .

* /d/ also represents a 'tapped' /t/ as in <bitter>

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence <petal> /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but <petally> /ˈpɛdl̩i/.

• i fleece, happ y
• æ trap, bath
• ɑ lot, palm, cloth, thought
• ɔ cloth, thought
• ɔr north, force
• ə strut, comm a
• ər nurse, lett er
• ɛ(ə)r square
• æ̃ sal on

Simple Text Respell

Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.

b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values

• arr carry (British only)
• a(ng) gratin
• o lot (British only)
• orr sorry (British only)
• o(ng) salon

zippy typically occurs about 0.03 times per million words in modern written English.

zippy is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands

Frequency of zippy, adj. , 1900–2010

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.

The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole , n.¹, mole , n.², mole , n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.

Frequency of zippy, adj. , 2017–2023

Modern frequency series are derived from a corpus of 20 billion words, covering the period from 2017 to the present. The corpus is mainly compiled from online news sources, and covers all major varieties of World English.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the corpus.

Compounds & derived words

• zippiness , n. 1907– The quality of being zippy (in various senses); speed, liveliness, zest, etc.
• zippily , adv. 1924– In a zippy manner; quickly, with great energy or liveliness.

Entry history for zippy, adj.

zippy, adj. was revised in March 2021.

zippy, adj. was last modified in July 2023.

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Revisions and additions of this kind were last incorporated into zippy, adj. in July 2023.

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Word History

imitative of the sound of a speeding object

origin unknown

back-formation from zipper

1852, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

1862, in the meaning defined at sense 1

circa 1900, in the meaning defined above

1925, in the meaning defined above

1925, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

1962, in the meaning defined above

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a word created to imitate the sound of an object speeding past

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