Nix

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  • noun. A water sprite of German mythology, usually in human form or half-human and half-fish.
  • noun. Nothing.
  • adverb. Not so; no.
  • transitive verb. To forbid, refuse, or veto.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Teut, myth., a water-spirit, good or bad. The Scotch water-kelpie is a wicked nix. Also written nis.
  • noun. Nothing; as an answer, nothing; also, by extension, as adverb, no.
  • noun. See the quotation.
  • An exelamation of alarm used by thieves, street Arabs, and others: as, nix, the bobby! (policeman).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. : nothing.
  • verb. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
  • verb. To destroy or eradicate.
  • noun. A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a quantity of no importance
  • verb. command against
  • Word Usage
    "_Course_, it's nix on Junior, an 'it's _nix_ on Peter if you say so."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brix  Dicks  Dix  Hicks  Knicks  
    Same Context
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    verb-form
    nixed  nixes  nixing  nixxing