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nounnitsky (uncountable)
- informaluncountableNothing.
He dances, an' runs around, an' has a good time, an' beyond that—nitsky.
1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book I, page 531 more example
“The boodle. The reward. The £500. The gunner turned damned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it would have been nitsky for you and me.
1917 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes”, in His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published October 1917, →OCLC, page 297
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