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
Example Sentences
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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 Goepp, Philip H.
The teasing motive of the nixie returns while the trumpet sounds a shadowy echo of its phrase, again to dying peal of bells.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
Her face was flushed and her nixie eyes were dancing to the mischief she contemplated.
From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
"Cat eyes," "nixie eyes," are samples of the epithets bestowed upon them.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
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