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nitsky

nitsky noun: nothing.

Noun

nitsky (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Nothing.
    • He dances, an' runs around, an' has a good time, an' beyond that—nitsky.1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book I, page 53
    • “The boodle. The reward. The £500. The gunner turned damned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it would have been nitsky for you and me.1917 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes”, in His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran...

Origin of nitsky

nit + -sky

Questions about nitsky

What does nitsky mean?
Nitsky means nothing.
What part of speech is nitsky?
Nitsky is a noun.

Words near nitsky in the dictionary

  1. Nitsches
  2. Nitschke
  3. Nitschkes
  4. nitschkiaceous
  5. Nitshill
  6. nitsky
  7. nitsuke
  8. nitta
  9. Nittany
  10. Nittany apple
  11. nittas

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