Nix vs Nig - What's the difference?
nix | nig |
(colloquial): nothing.
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
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To destroy or eradicate.
A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
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(offensive, racial slur) nigger
* 1959 , Don Robertson, The three days
* 1961 , Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War
* 1967 , Frank Hercules, I want a black doll
As a proper noun nix
is (astronomy) one of the moons of pluto (named 21 june 2006) or nix can be .As a noun nig is
(offensive|racial slur) nigger.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.
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Etymology 2
Noun
(es)nig
English
Noun
(en noun)- He always thought one step ahead of the nigs .
- In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.
- What part did she play in your marrying a nig — a black man — nig, nig — Negro?