nix.
Nothing.
Meaning & usage
Nothing.
Where this word comes from
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.
To destroy or eradicate.
Where this word comes from
From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
No! Not at all!
A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.
Where this word comes from
From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
A treacherous water-spirit
Where this word comes from
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.
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