Nit vs Nix - What's the difference?
nit | nix |
The egg of a louse.
A young louse.
(UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
A nitpicker.
A minor shortcoming.
(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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As a noun nit
is nest.As a proper noun nix is
(astronomy) one of the moons of pluto (named 21 june 2006) or nix can be .nit
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) nite, from (etyl) hnitu, from (etyl) )Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dickies (Geordie)Derived terms
* nit-pickingEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
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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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