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nixie

1

[ nik-see ]

noun

  1. a letter or parcel that is undeliverable by the post office because of a faulty or illegible address.


nixie

2

[ nik-see ]

noun

German Folklore.
  1. a female water spirit.

nixie

/ ˈɪɪ /

noun

  1. German myth a female water sprite, usually unfriendly to humans
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nixie1

First recorded in 1880–85; nix 1 + -ie

Origin of nixie2

1810–20; < German Nixe ( Middle High German nickese, Old High German nicchessa; nix 2 ), perhaps construed at time of borrowing as nix 2 + -ie
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nixie1

C19: see nix
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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.

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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.

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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.

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I spot a nixie in a black velvet mask eating a tiny sparrow’s heart off a long pin.

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“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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