Donald vs Nixie - What's the difference?
donald | nixie |
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* 1816 , Old Mortality , Samuel H. Parker, 1836, page 232
* 1980 , The Glass House, a Novella and Stories , Viking Press, 1980, ISBN 0670341797, page 76:
* 1991 , Donald Duk , Coffee House Press, 1991, ISBN 0918273838, page 1
A female water-elf.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
A piece of mail returned as undeliverable.
:* mailers may also receive information on addresses that are undeliverable for reasons other than a customer move (i.e., nixie notifications) — United States Postal Service
As a proper noun donald
is .As a noun nixie is
a female water-elf or nixie can be a piece of mail returned as undeliverable.donald
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds , and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -
- My friends call me Terry. My husband always used my full name, Teresa. He said it made him feel like he was married to a foreign woman. And I never called him Don or Donny or Donny Joe. I called him Donald from the first time we met.
- Donald' Duk never liked his name. He hates his name. He is not a duck. He is not a cartoon character. - - - "Only the Chinese are stupid enough to give a kid a stupid name like '''Donald''' Duk," ' Donald Duk says to himself.
Usage notes
*Popular in all English-speaking countries in the first half of the 20th century.Derived terms
* Donald Duck * (pet forms) Don, Donnie, Donny * (female given name) Donnanixie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Nixe, feminine of Nix, from (etyl) nickes, from (etyl) (English nicker).Noun
(en noun)- Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie ’s green.
Etymology 2
Noun
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