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Definition

A person with an especially nervous, excitable, or fearful disposition.

A lively, continually active person.

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In Context

  • "Being in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man."
  • "She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be."
  • ""Come and take lunch with me." The speaker was a walking, talking bundle of nerves, clothed in black broadcloth. A flawless diamond sparkled on the scarlet scarf that peeped above his close-fitting Prince Albert coat, and a pair of roguish eyes danced above two rosy cheeks."
  • "He found Pesita pacing back and forth before his tent—an energetic bundle of nerves which no amount of hard riding and fighting could tire or discourage."
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Also Said As

  • bag of nerves
  • worrywart
  • worrier
  • coward