mox nix

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English

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Etymology

An alteration of German macht nichts (“doesn't matter”) that originated among American soldiers stationed in Germany after World War II.

Pronunciation

Interjection

mox nix

  1. (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!
    • 1983, Ian Skidmore, Forgive Us Our Press Passes‎, →ISBN, page 21:

      'Nice people, are they?'

      'I shouldn't think so.'

      'Aw, well. Mox nix. Want some of this rice?'

    • 2005, James Carroll, Secret Father: A Novel‎, →ISBN, page 264:
      No, I get it. Small matter. Mox nix.
    • 2011, Ritch Gaiti, Tweet: One Guy Can't Change the World—Good Thing that Glebe Didn't Know That‎, →ISBN, page 73:
      I thought it resembled me more than Hartwick but mox nix—it was ours.

Adjective

mox nix (not comparable)

  1. (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).
    • 2004, Kenneth Stiers, The Rapanui Code‎, →ISBN, page 49:
      Frankly it's mox-nix to me.
    • 2006, William P. Singley, Bragg‎, →ISBN, page 81:
      Mox nix to me if you cover for him.

References

  1. ^ Eric Partridge, 1986, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day, 2nd edn., p. 314.
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