"nixer" meaning in All languages combined

See nixer on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-nixer.ogg Forms: nixers [plural]
Etymology: From nix + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nix|er}} nix + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} nixer (plural nixers)
  1. (Ireland, slang) A job or income which is in addition to one's normal employment, generally done in the evening or on weekends; originally, work for payment that was not declared for taxation, now any work that is not part of one's regular job. Tags: Ireland, slang Related terms: under the counter, off the books, side hustle

Verb [Latin]

Forms: nīxer [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=nīxer}} nīxer
  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of nīxor Tags: active, first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive Form of: nīxor
    Sense id: en-nixer-la-verb-hho3VaX~ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "2000, Patricia Scanlan, City Lives, Random House (Bantam Books), page 385,\n'Ciara, you were getting very well paid. Over the odds in fact. And doing the odd nixer is a hell of a lot different from defrauding your employers,' Devlin retorted angrily."
        },
        {
          "text": "2002 [Ashgate Publishing], Ullrich Kockel, Regional Culture and Economic Development, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 51,\nAlthough this advice was given with a view to allowing Séamus to continue in farming while maintaining his factory job, the success of this innovation, which was largely financed by savings facilitated through ‘nixers’ and poteen sales – was such that Séamus quit his job, and is now enjoying a higher level of total income than before: His flock productivity has almost doubled, and quality improved considerably as the weaning rate rose."
        },
        {
          "text": "2024, Seamus O'Rourke, Leaning on Gates, Gill (Gill Books), unnumbered page,\nHe asked me if I was interested in doing a nixer. I didn't know what a nixer was. I was so sheltered in my little safe nine-to-five working world that I didn't realise there was another world out there with less emphasis on clock-watching and more on making money.\n'A nixer – a couple of evenings' work for cash.'\n'Oh,' I said, 'that sounds good to me.'"
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        },
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        },
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