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▪ I. nixie1|ˈnɪksɪ|
[ad. G. nixe fem.: see nix n.2]
A female water-elf; a water-nymph.
1816Scott Antiq. xxv, All the German superstitions of nixies, oak-kings, wer-wolves. 1821― Pirate xxviii, She who sits by haunted well, Is subject to the Nixie's spell. 1836Blackw. Mag. XL. 146 Those Elves and Erles,..those alps and goblins, those nixies and wood-nymphs. 1892Daily News 16 Nov. 5/4 To the left and right, in the form of handles, are two nixies blowing shells. 1918D. H. Lawrence New Poems 62 It seems to me The woman you are should be nixie, there is a pool Where we ought to be. 1952R. Campbell tr. Baudelaire's Poems 214 If your gaze the gaze transfixes Of satyresses or of nixies.
▪ II. nixie2|ˈnɪksɪ|
Also nixy.
[f. nix1 + -y6, -ie.]
1. = nix1 1 b. Also attrib. U.S.
1890Cent. Dict., Nixy2. 1901Congress. Rec. 17 Jan. 1145/6 These poor ‘nixie’ clerks in the postoffices of this country. 1904Springfield (Mass.) Republ. 29 Oct. 4 He was made what is known in the office as a ‘nixy’ clerk..one who looks up misdirected letters. 1905N.Y. Even. Post 8 Feb. 5 What the railway postal clerks most dread is the class of mail they know as ‘nixes’. 1929Lit. Digest 5 Oct. 67/1 The similarity in appearance of the letters N.Y. and N.J...is responsible for many letters reaching the ‘Nixie’ division. 1949Amer. Speech XXVI. 136/1 Nixie, a piece of mail so damaged or illegible that it can go no farther in the mails. The Nixie section rewraps and tries to discern the scribbled addresses on mail. 1956Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 19 Sept. 28/1 ‘Nixie’ is mail that can't be delivered because the address is incorrect, illegible, or insufficient.
b. = nix n.1 1 a.
1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xviii. 249 Er storm centre..redooced..land values t' nex' t' nixie.
2. adv. No, certainly not. Freq. as expletive.
1886H. Baumann Londinismen 120/1 Nixey..nein, nicht. 1903Pedagogical Seminary X. 373 Nixy... Don't you believe it. Not much. 1914G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 108 They're all right to marry,..but to sacrifice your life for, nixie. |