Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A contraction of ne is, is not.
  • noun Same as nix.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • obsolete Is not.

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  • phrase obsolete Contraction of ne is

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  • "1. A contraction of ne is, is not.

    2. Same as nix."

    --Century Dictionary

    "1. Is not."

    --GNU Webster's 1913

    "Yuh-hunh."

    --ruzuzu

    February 16, 2011

  • Is too.

    February 16, 2011

  • Ne is.

    February 16, 2011

  • Is not.

    February 16, 2011

  • Is too.

    February 16, 2011

  • ne.

    February 16, 2011

  • We are the Knights Who Say...Nis!

    February 17, 2011

  • They're not.

    February 17, 2011