Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nix"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nix \Nix\, n.; fem. {Nixe}. [G. Cf. 1st {Nick}.] (Teut. Myth.)
One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a
mischievous disposition.
The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death.
--Tylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nix
n : a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all
for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nothing},
{nil}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
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