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Nix

//nɪks// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    No! Not at all!

    ""Ugh! An inventor, eh?" "Nix! He's not an inventor himself, but he antes-up for 'em.""

  2. 2
    A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching. obsolete
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    One of the moons of Pluto (named 21 June 2006.)
  2. 2
    A surname originating as a patronymic.
Noun
  1. 1
    Nothing. colloquial, uncountable

    ""That's a clean lift from Kipling—or is it Conan Doyle? Anyway, I've read something just like it before. Say, kid, guess what these magazine guys get for a full page ad.? Nix. That's just like a woman. Three thousand straight. Fact.""

  2. 2
    A treacherous water-spirit

    "The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]"

  3. 3
    a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.

    "Nix the last order – the customer walked out."

  2. 2
    command against wordnet
  3. 3
    To destroy or eradicate.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

Etymology 2

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

Etymology 3

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

Etymology 4

From German Nix, from Middle High German nickes, niches, from Old High German nichus, nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwus (“water-spirit; nix”), from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”).

Etymology 5

Named after the mother of Charon, goddess of darkness and night.

Etymology 6

From Nick, diminutive of the given name Nicholas + patronymic suffix -s.

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