NIX - 8 definitions found
nix n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo] v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit] nix "nothing, none," 1789, from Ger. nix, dial. variant of nichts "nothing," from M.H.G. nihtes, from gen. of niht, nit "nothing," from O.H.G. niwiht, from ni, ne "no" + wiht "thing, creature" (cf. naught). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) nix I. noun Etymology: German nichts nothing Date: 1789 nothing II. transitive verb Date: circa 1903 veto, reject <the court nixed the merger> III. adverb Date: 1902 no — used to express disagreement or the withholding of permission; often used with on <they said nix on our plan> IV. noun Etymology: German, from Old High German nihhus; akin to Old English nicor water monster and perhaps to Greek nizein to wash Date: 1833 a water sprite of Germanic folklore Oxford English Reference Dictionary
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue NIX Nothing. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Nix \Nix\, n.; fem. Nixe. [G. Cf. 1st Nick.] (Teut. Myth.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition. The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death. --Tylor. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms nix n. ; (also nixie) Water-spirit. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 92 Moby Thesaurus words for "nix": Davy, Davy Jones, Neptune, Nereid, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, abnegation, aught, cipher, contradiction, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dissent, fat chance, forget it, fresh-water nymph, goose egg, holding back, kelpie, kill, limniad, man fish, mermaid, merman, nada, naiad, naught, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism, negativity, nichts, nihil, nil, nit, nixie, no, no sirree, no such thing, no way, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nope, not a chance, not much, nothing, nothing at all, nothing doing, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, ocean nymph, recantation, refusal, rejection, repudiation, retention, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, siren, thing of naught, thumbs-down, turndown, under no circumstances, undine, unwillingness, water god, water spirit, water sprite, wind, withholding, zero, zilch |
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