Nix

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death.


                                                    --Tylor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nix
       n : 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}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
           egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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