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a letter or parcel that is undeliverable by the post office because of a faulty or illegible address.
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Nixie
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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nixie
"water fairy," 1816 (introduced by Sir Walter Scott), from Ger. Nixie, from O.H.G. nihhussa "water sprite," fem. of nihhus, from P.Gmc. *nikwiz- (cf. O.N. nykr, O.E. nicor "water spirit, water monster," also used to gloss hippopotamus; Grendel's mother in "Beowulf" was a nicor), perhaps from PIE *nigw-
EXPAND(cf. Skt. nenkti "washes," Gk. nizo "I wash," O.Ir. nigid "washes").
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nixie
in Germanic mythology, a water being, half human, half fish, that lives in a beautiful underwater palace and mingles with humans by assuming a variety of physical forms (e.g., that of a fair maiden or an old woman) or by making itself invisible. One of three attributes may betray the disguises of nixes: they are music lovers and excellent dancers, and they have the gift of prophecy. Usually malevolent, a nix can easily be propitiated with gifts. In some regions, nixes are said to abduct human children and to lure people into deep water to drown. According to some sources, nixes can marry human beings and bear human children.
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