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*nixes

*nixes is the plural of nix.

Meaning of nix

Noun (1)

nix (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Nothing.
    • "That's a clean lift from Kipling—or is it Conan Doyle? Anyway, I've read something just like it before. Say, kid, guess what these magazine guys get for a full page ad.? Nix. That's just like a woman. Three thousand straight. Fact."1912, Edna Ferber, “Maymeys from Cuba”, in Buttered Side Down
    Synonyms:
    nada, zip

Noun (2)

nix (plural nixes)

  1. A treacherous water-spirit
    • A girl from a village near Lei[zig was one time at service in the house of a Nix.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 70

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Questions about *nixes

What is *nixes the plural of?
*nixes is the plural of nix.

Words near *nixes in the dictionary

  1. *69s
  2. *band
  3. *bands
  4. *nices
  5. *nix
  6. *nixes
  7. *NSYNCer
  8. *NSYNCers
  9. *ss
  10. *sshole
  11. +

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Adapted from Wiktionary: *nixes (page history and authors); nix (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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