mox nix
English
Alternative forms
- mox-nix
Etymology
An alteration of German macht nichts (“doesn't matter”) that originated among American soldiers stationed in Germany after World War II.[1]
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑks ˌnɪks/
Interjection
mox nix
- (dated, slang) it doesn't matter; no worries
- 1969, Creighton Abrams, “1969”, in Lewis Sorley, editor, Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968–1972, published 2004, →ISBN, page 330:
- When they want to do something, they do it! Whether we've funded it, whether we'll support it—mox nix. They do it!
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Adjective
mox nix (not comparable)
- (dated, slang) unimportant, irrelevant
- 1947, H. W. Kale, “Letter of July 5, 1947”, in Mark William Falzini, editor, Letters Home: The Story of an American Military Family in Occupied Germany 1946–1949, published 2004, →ISBN, page 99:
- If you don't have time to do this don't worry about it because it's mox nix to me (mox nicht—makes no difference).
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