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The original author is Dutch. In Dutch, "niks" (same pronunciation as Nix), actually means "nothing". His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing".

• scns 4y ago
  > His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing". In german that would be Nichtsnutz. Would the english word deadbeat mean the same?
  • grhmc 4y ago
    Yep!