nix

Meanings

Noun

• Nothing.
• A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.

Verb

• To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
• To destroy or eradicate.

Interjection

• A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.

Origin

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