Zilch vs Nix - What's the difference?
zilch | nix |
(informal) nothing.
* 1991 , Judith Arnold, One Good Turn? , page 104:
(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 proper nouns the difference between zilch and nix
is that zilch is while nix is (astronomy) one of the moons of pluto (named 21 june 2006) or nix can be .zilch
English
Noun
(-)- "If the homeless wind up with zilch'," James retorted, veiling his indignation behind a malevolent smile, "it's because they deserve ' zilch ."
Synonyms
* zero (standard), zip (informal), nada (informal)References
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.”}}