nix
verb
- veto, say no to
noun
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L324490 on Wikidata ↗interjection
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Pronunciation: /nɪks/
intj
Etymology: From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
- No! Not at all!
“"Ugh! An inventor, eh?" "Nix! He's not an inventor himself, but he antes-up for 'em."”
- A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.
name
Etymology: Clipping of Phoenix.
- Wellington Phoenix FC (a football club based in Wellington, New Zealand competing in the Australian A-League)
noun
Etymology: 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”) whence English nicker.
- 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[.]”
verb
Etymology: From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
- To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
“Nix the last order – the customer walked out.”
“Sticks Nix Hick Pix [headline]”
- To destroy or eradicate.