bundle of nerves
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.67 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person with an especially nervous, excitable, or fearful disposition.
Example Sentences
- "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."