nix adv.
no, certainly not, not at all.
Orig. Pontoon Songster 41: Hail Columbia in the garret, Yankee Doodle shouta, / By and by there comes a policeman, and he nix can fetch him outa. | ‘Down Near The Battery ’ in||
Dly Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 1 Nov. 3/3: ‘Well,’ said the detective, ‘I guess I had better “nixy weeden cull”, or stop talking slang. | ||
Tag, Rag & Co. 43: Had the stave suggested been [...] ‘Nix, my dolly pals’. | ||
Sun (NY) 14 Jan. 6/2: ‘Nixy,’ says I. | ||
Pitcher in Paradise 204: Of what use is it to try and reason with such people? None — nix absolutely. | ||
Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 360: I ast for the first floor front, an’ you said nix, but you let a coupla dopes have it. | ||
News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: I pushed a couple of sinkers into my chops but nix on the Mocha. | ||
In the Foreign Legion 41: ‘Nix good. D—n bad!’. | ||
You Should Worry cap. 3: A perpetual reception committee to a frowsy-headed Slavonian exile demanding $35 per and nix on the washing. | ||
Anna Christie Act I: On board your barge, you mean? Nix for mine! | ||
N.Y. Amsterdam News 12 Feb. 7/1: Mrs Maceo Pinckard says nix to most vistors to ill hubby’s bedside. | ||
letter 16 Jan. in Leader (2000) 16: The conversation was limited to ‘Cognac, ah! Nix good’. | ||
Walk in the Night (1968) 68: You don’t have to worry niks, Mikey. We okay. We don’t give an eff for the law. | ||
Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 82: But the guard said, ‘Nix,’ that he was on to all the tricks. |