Synonyms:
crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy
Meaning: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"
Synonyms:
barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious
Meaning: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Usage examples
They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.