nixie
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
Etymology
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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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.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
On dancing ripples, a nixie is laughing to echoing horns and lures us back to the story.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
Even the people on the shore, peasants with their carts and solitary pedestrians, stopped as if enchanted, and gazed at the black ship slowly dividing the waves bearing a singing nixie on her deck.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
You were then a child; Now you are a nixie, spell-weaving, wild.
From The Feast at Solhoug by William Archer
"This is a nixie trying to lure me to the depth," I thought.
From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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