niksn.
/nɪks/, U.S. /nɪks/, South African English /nɪks/ South African.
Nothing, nothing at all; not any, none.
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1860 A. W. Drayson Sporting Scenes (ed. 2) 146 This distance would have been ‘nix’ (nothing) if we could only have procured water.
1900 S. T. Plaatje Boer War Diary (1973) 103 I have been on horseback from early till late during the last 2 days - and all that for ‘niks’.
1924 L. Cohen Reminisc. of Johannesburg 130 The shares..now stand at nix.
1962 A. La Guma Walk in Night xiii. 64 You don't have to worry niks, Mikey. We okay.
1992 Evening Post (Port Elizabeth) 27 Mar. 10 ‘I'm well, thank you,’ I say patiently awaiting identification. Niks.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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