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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'nixie' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions nixie noun  a female water-elf 1922: Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a "s green. " James Joyce, Ulysses a piece of mail returned as undeliverable mailers may also receive information on addresses that are undeliverable for reasons other than a customer move (i.e., notifications) " United States Postal Service http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressservices/moveupdate/acs.htm Address Change Service description Etymology: From German Nixe feminine of Nix, from Middle High German nickes, from Old High German nihhus "water-elf, crocodile", cognate with Old English nicor "water-elf, hippopotamus, walrus" (English nicker).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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