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nix | nib |

As a proper noun nix

is (astronomy) one of the moons of pluto (named 21 june 2006) or nix can be .

As a noun nib is

the tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.

nix

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) nix, colloquial form of . More at (l).

Noun

(-)
  • (colloquial): nothing.
    • Synonyms
    * nada * zip

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
    • Nix the last order - the customer walked out.
  • * {{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 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.”}}
  • To destroy or eradicate.

    • Related terms

    * / eighty-six * ixnay * mox nix

    References

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
    • ----

    nib

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib , pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
  • The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
  • Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
  • A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
  • A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • the little nib or fructifying principle
  • One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  • The shaft of a wagon.

    • Derived terms

    * denib

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) ----