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nixie
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noun
  1. a female water-elf
  • 1922: Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a "s green. " James Joyce, Ulysses
    1. a piece of mail returned as undeliverable
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).


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