nipple, n.
teat, tit, titty, Chiefly Dial,
pap, dug, Anat.
mamilla, papilla; pacifier, sugar-tit.
nitid, adj.
bright, shining, lucid, lucent, relucent; radiant, irradiant, effulgent, refulgent, lambent, beamy, beamish; shiny, glossy, glassy, lustrous, sheenful, sheeny, burnished, polished; glittering, glinting, fulgid, sparkling, twinkling, flashing, fulgurant; glaring, flary, brilliant, splendid, splendorous, resplendent, fulgent, dazzling; illuminated, alight, light, lit, glowing, aglow, rutilant, luminous, luminescent; incandescent, phosphorescent, iridescent, opalescent, opaline.
nit-pick, v. Informal,
pettifog, split hairs, chop logic; carp, cavil, quibble, find fault, criticize, pick or tear apart, take apart in detail.
nitty-gritty, n.
crux, gist, Inf
nub, meat, substance, essence, quintessence, sum and substance, essential part, marrow, pith, heart of the matter; core, inner core, heart, center, nucleus, kernel; base, bottom, root.
nitwit, n.
fool, ninny, nincompoop, goose; dimwit, half-wit, simpleton, Simple Simon, Inf.
jay, Sl.
bird-brain, Sl.
pinhead. See - nincompoop.
nix', n. Slang.1. nothing, none, naught, no quantity, no amount, no degree; none whatever, none whatsoever, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing under the sun; no such thing, nil, Sl.
zip, aught; Sl. zilch, Sl.
scratch, Sl.
diddly, Sl.
squat; Latin, nihil, Fr. rien, Sp. nada;
not one, not a one, nary a one, no one, not a thing, Inf.
not a blessed thing.
-adv.
2. no, nay, never. See - no (def.
2). -interj.
3. watch it, attention, on guard, heads up, hark; Sl.
cheese it, Sl.
cool it, Sl.
keep cool.
-v.4. veto, override, overrule, counterorder, countermand; prohibit, disallow, proscribe, disapprove, forbid, negative; turn down, reject, refuse, repudiate, negate; quash, nullify, void, annul, invalidate, disestablish; silence, squelch, suppress, abolish.
nix2, n.
nixie, water sprite, fairy, siren, nymph, naiad, kelpie, undine, rusalka; sea maid, sea maiden, sea nymph, Oceanid, Nereid, mermaid.
no, adv.
1. not at all, to no extent, not, in no respect, not so, Fr. pas du tout;
far from being, far from, anything but, by no means, God forbid; noway, noways, nowise, not in the least, Inf.
no how, nothing of the kind or
sort; not nearly, nowhere near, not by a long shot, by no stretch of the imagination; on no account, in no case; in no way, shape or form; under no circumstances, not in a million years.
2. nay, no indeed, no sir, no ma'am, Inf.
no siree, Inf
no siree bob; Sl.
uh-uh, Inf.
nope, Sl.
naw, Sl. nah, Sl.
forget it, Inf.
nothing doing, no way, no, no, a thousand times no; never, not on your life, absolutely not, certainly not, not really, are you kidding; on no account, to or
on the contrary, Fr. au contraire;
negative, Citizens' Band Radio Sl.
negatory, Pig Latin,
ix-nay; Ger. nein, Fr. non, It. no, Russ, nyet;
count me out, over my dead body, Sl.
like hell I will, out of the question, far be it from me; I won't, I will not, I refuse.
-n. 3. denial, refusal, rejection, turndown, disapproval; rebuff, repulse, declination; repudiation, disclaimer, Rhet.
apophasis, recantation, retraction; for-biddance, proscription, prohibition, disapproval, Inf. no-go.
4. negative vote, nay, thumbs down, U.S.
Bronx cheer; veto, objection, contravention, protest, refutation, answer; disagreement, dissent, demur, demurral.
-adj.
5. not any, no more, none, not one, not a one, nary.