Nix vs Nex - What's the difference?
nix | nex |
(colloquial): nothing.
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 17
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)
, work=The Onion AV Club
To destroy or eradicate.
A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
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(archaic)
(military, US) An abbreviation for Navy Exchange, a department store chain operated by the United States Navy exclusively for current and former members of the United States Military, military families, allies of the United States, and certain other individuals.
:I'm going to the Nex to do my Christmas shopping.
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As proper nouns the difference between nix and nex
is that nix is one of the moons of Pluto (named 21 June 2006. while nex is an abbreviation for Navy Exchange, a department store chain operated by the United States Navy exclusively for current and former members of the United States Military, military families, allies of the United States, and certain other individuals.As a noun nix
is : nothing.As a verb nix
is to make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.As an adjective nex is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.nix
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nix, colloquial form of . More at (l).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* nada * zipVerb
(es)- Nix the last order - the customer walked out.
citation, page= , passage=At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”}}