nix

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”)[1][2]. Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /nɪks/

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• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophone: nicks

nix (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Nothing. [from 1789]

   Synonyms: nada, zip

nix (third-person singular simple present nixes, present participle nixing, simple past and past participle nixed)

1. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. [from 1903]

   Synonyms: cancel, reject

   Nix the last order – the customer walked out.

   • 1935 July 17, “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”, in Variety, page 1:

   • 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”

2. To destroy or eradicate.

nix

1. (obsolete) A warning cry when a policeman etc. was sighted in the street.

• 86 / eighty-six
• ixnay
• mox nix

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”).

nix (plural nixes)

1. A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.

• Xin

• IPA^(key): [ˈníːʃ]

nīx (inanimate)

1. first-person singular possessive singular of īxtli; (it is) my eye.
2. first-person singular possessive plural of īxtli; (they are) my eyes.

From German nichts (“nothing”).

• IPA^(key): /neɡs/, [neɡ̊s]

nix or niks

1. no, no way

nix

1. (non-standard form of) niks

• IPA^(key): /nɪks/
• Hyphenation: nix
• Rhymes: -ɪks

Borrowed from German Nixe.

nix m (plural nixen)

1. nix, nixie (water spirit)
   • 1956, s-Gravenhage. Maandblad der gemeente 's-Gravenhage, page 14.

     Zijn dit nu de nixen van Heinrich Heine of de zwanen van de Scandinavische ballades?

     Are these then Heinrich Heine's nixes or the swans of Scandinavian ballads?

   Synonyms: nikker, watergeest

Borrowed from German nix.

nix

1. (slang) Deliberate misspelling of niks.

A widespread form in dialects all over the German language area, probably the same as standard nichts, viz. a contraction of it.

• IPA^(key): /nɪks/

nix

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of nichts (“nothing”)

   Ich hab nix gesehen. ― I saw nothing.

• → English: nix

nix

1. no way!

   Nix! Jetzt ist Schluss hier!

   No way! That's it now!

• nix in Duden online

From Proto-Italic *sniks (stem *sniɣʷ-), from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”) (whence also Latin nivit, ningit, ninguit). Direct cognates include Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha) and Old Irish snechtae and indirectly also Sanskrit स्नेह (sneha) and Old English snāw and snīwan (English snow and snew).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niks/, [nɪks]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niks/

nix f (genitive nivis); third declension

1. snow
2. white hair

Third declension i-stem.

• nix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Compare German nichts.

nix

1. nothing

nix

1. (slang) not, no (negative response to a question)

   Någon undrade om guldfonder, men nix sade Claes, alltför osäkert.

   Someone asked about gold funds, but Claes said "nope, too risky".

   - Är det någon vi känner? Frågade pappa. - Nix, svarade jag.

   Dad asked "Is it someone we know?" "No", I answered.

• nix pix