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  1. noun Mythology A water sprite of German mythology, usually in human form or half-human and half-fish.
  2. noun Nothing.
  3. adverb Not so; no.
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  • Imbri tried to evoke the word from a dream, but the nix was too canny for that. —  Night Mare
  • For some reason I never got into * nix, even if I studied and later worked in an university environment for several years. —  PCLinuxOS-Forums
  • GIS began on * nix, and sees much higher performance that any other operating system, regardless of software package. —  James Fee GIS Blog
  • By its lights, 86 is rhyming slang for nix, a word meaning 'to forbid, refuse, veto' (as in "The boss nixed my great plan for reorganizing the company"). —  New Urban Legends
  • Ant client computer, be it a mac or a pc or other * nix should be able to search the document repository. —  Discussions: Message List - root
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  1. German, from Middle High German nickes, from Old High German nihhus.
  2. German dialectal, from Middle High German nihtes, genitive of niht, from Old High German niwiht : ni, not, no; see ne in Indo-European roots + wiht, thing; see wekti- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from G. nix (Middle High German nickes, niches, Old High German nichus, nihhus). a water-sprite (= Danish nisse, a hobgoblin, brownie): see nicker. Cf. nixy and nis.
  2. from German nichts (= Dutch niets), nothing. properly adverb, orig. genitive of nicht, not, naught: see naught, not.
  3. Prob. another application of nix, 1.
 

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