nix

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /nɪks/    美 /nɪks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Nothing. colloquial,uncountable
    — "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."
  2. A treacherous 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 forms of the ancient Nicor[.]
动词 v.
  1. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
    — Nix the last order – the customer walked out.
  2. To destroy or eradicate.
感叹词 intj.
  1. No! Not at all!
    — "Ugh! An inventor, eh?" "Nix! He's not an inventor himself, but he antes-up for 'em."
  2. A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching. obsolete

词形变化

nixes present,singular,third-person nixing participle,present nixed participle,past nixed past nixes plural

词汇关系

相关词
86 eighty-six ixnay mox nix

词源

词源 1
From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
词源 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 *neygʷ- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”) whence English nicker.
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