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English

Alternative forms

• ix-nay

Etymology

Pig Latin version of nix; possibly the only Pig Latin phrase to enter common American English besides amscray. Ixnay and amscray were used widely in The Three Stooges shorts, possibly the main source of popularity for the words.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks?ne?/

Interjection

ixnay

1. No.

Noun

ixnay (uncountable)

1. (slang, intransitive) Nothing; nix; often in the phrase "ixnay on ...", indicating something that must not be mentioned, often in Pig Latin

   Ixnay on the “W-A-L-K” while the dogs can hear you.

Verb

ixnay (third-person singular simple present ixnays, present participle ixnaying, simple past and past participle ixnayed)

1. (slang, transitive) To reject something.
   • 2009, Kathleen Kaska, Murder at the Arlington, Salvo Press ?ISBN

     If I wasn't so bored out of my mind, I would have ixnayed that idea.

   • 2013, Gervich Chad, How to Manage Your Agent: A Writer’s Guide to Hollywood Representation, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 295

     Personally, I'd rather feel momentarily bummed when my agent ixnays a two-paragraph idea than totally crushed when she ixnays a 110-page screenplay it took six months to perfect.

   • 2015, Angelina Mirabella, The Sweetheart: A Novel, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN, page 158

     You didn't want to ask for a handout—you have a vague memory of him ixnaying advances when you signed your contract—but you don't have much choice.

Related terms

• nix

See also

• XNAY
• Pig Latin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: nicks

Noun

nix (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Nothing. [from 1789]

   Synonyms: nada, zip

Translations

Verb

nix (third-person singular simple present nixes, present participle nixing, simple past and past participle nixed)

1. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. [from 1903]

   Synonyms: cancel, reject
2. To destroy or eradicate.

Translations

Interjection

nix

1. (obsolete) A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.

Related terms

• 86 / eighty-six
• ixnay
• mox nix

References

Etymology 2

From German Nix, from Middle High German nickes, niches, from Old High German nichus, nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwus (“water-spirit; nix”), from Proto-Indo-European *neyg?- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”).

Noun

nix (plural nixes)

1. A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.

Translations

Anagrams

• Xin

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ní??]

Noun

n?x (inanimate)

1. first-person singular possessive singular of ?xtli; (it is) my eye.
2. first-person singular possessive plural of ?xtli; (they are) my eyes.

Danish

Etymology

From German nichts (“nothing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?s/, [ne??s]

Interjection

nix or niks

1. no, no way

Pronoun

nix

1. (non-standard form of) niks

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ks/
• Hyphenation: nix
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Nixe.

Noun

nix m (plural nixen)

1. nix, nixie (water spirit)
   • 1956, s-Gravenhage. Maandblad der gemeente 's-Gravenhage, page 14.

   Synonyms: nikker, watergeest

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German nix.

Pronoun

nix

1. (slang) Deliberate misspelling of niks.

German

Etymology

A widespread form in dialects all over the German language area, probably the same as standard nichts, viz. a contraction of it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ks/

Pronoun

nix

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of nichts (“nothing”)

Descendants

• ? English: nix

Interjection

nix

1. no way!

Further reading

• “nix” in Duden online

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sniks (with oblique stem *sni??- > niv-), from Proto-Indo-European *snéyg??s (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneyg??- (“to snow”) (whence also Latin nivit, ningit, ninguit). Direct cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (nípha) and Old Irish snechtae and indirectly also Sanskrit ????? (sneha) and Old English sn?w and sn?wan (English snow and snew).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niks/, [n?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niks/, [niks]

Noun

nix f (genitive nivis); third declension

1. snow
2. (figuratively) white hair

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

Descendants

References

• nix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Low German

Alternative forms

• nicks, Nicks

Pronoun

nix

1. nothing

Derived terms

• nix för ungud (Paderbornisch); nix för ungood/nix för ungod (North-Western)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German nichts.

Pronoun

nix

1. nothing

Swedish

Etymology

From German nichts (“nothing”)

Interjection

nix

1. (slang) not, no (negative response to a question)

Synonyms

• nix pix