[adjective] -ier, -iest [informal] - nervous and anxious, esp. because of fear or guiltMy mother gets very jumpy when she's alone in the house.I'm rather jumpy about travelling on the metro late at night.He was so jumpy in the interview that the police thought he was lying.
JUMPY
Meaning of JUMPY in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012