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nixie

/ˈnɪksi/

nixie noun: a female nix, a water-spirit.

Noun (1)

nixie (plural nixies)

  1. A female nix, a water-spirit.
    • The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all...1876, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest, volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 391
    • The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream.1916, Rex Beach, Rainbow's End, published 2008, page 1

Noun (2)

nixie (plural nixies)

  1. A piece of mail returned as undeliverable.
    • Mailers who are registered participants in the Postal Service's Address Change Service (ACS) system expect to receive their address corrections and nixie notifications by electronic messages;[…].1994 March 3, Postal Bulletin, United States Postal Service, page 4
    • If you get a response of less than one percent or excessive “nixies” (wrong addresses), rework your copy or get a new list.2003, Jenkins Group, The Insiders Guide to Large Quantity Book Sales, page 7

nixie meaning in Tamil

nixie in Tamil

நிக்சி

Examples of nixie in a sentence

  • Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie’s green.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
  • In medieval times, the image of the double fish tailed siren was called a nixie or evil water spirit.2011, Katalin Koda, Fire of the Goddess, page 83:

Forms of nixie

pluralnixies
alternative formnixe
alternative formnixy

Origin of nixie

From German Nixe, feminine of Nix, from Middle High German nickes, from Old High German nihhus (“water-elf, crocodile”), from Proto-Germanic *nikwus, *nikwis, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“water-elf, hippopotamus, walrus”), English nicker.

From nix + -ie.

Phrases with nixie

Questions about nixie

What does nixie mean?
Nixie means a female nix, a water-spirit.
What is nixie in Tamil?
Nixie in Tamil is நிக்சி. See Nixie meaning in Tamil.
How do you use nixie in a sentence?
Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie’s green.
What part of speech is nixie?
Nixie is a noun.
How do you pronounce nixie?
Nixie is pronounced /ˈnɪksi/.
What is the plural of nixie?
The plural of nixie is nixies.

Words near nixie in the dictionary

  1. nixed
  2. nixer
  3. nixers
  4. nixes
  5. Nixey
  6. nixie
  7. Nixie tube
  8. Nixie tubes
  9. nixies
  10. nixing
  11. Nixon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nixie (page history and authors); nixie (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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