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nixie
1[ nik-see ]
noun
- a letter or parcel that is undeliverable by the post office because of a faulty or illegible address.
nixie
2[ nik-see ]
noun
- a female water spirit.
nixie
/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
- German myth a female water sprite, usually unfriendly to humans
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of nixie1
Example Sentences
The Heritage Series Pony is more my speed: a small, three-door concept that, I kid you not, has a Nixie tube speedometer and horsepower meter.
The family’s two yappy dogs — Stella and Nixie, a terrier mix and a pug-Labrador mix — were relegated to a room from which they could not see squirrels.
I think of the river and how, when one nixie detached from the others, Cardan waited until it paused and then left so we could get out of the water.
I spot a nixie in a black velvet mask eating a tiny sparrow’s heart off a long pin.
“In Texas, Beto is going to make us vote,” Kathleen Nixie, of Galveston, who came to the rally dressed in the white dress and gold sash of a suffragette, said.
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