[maartenh]

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]

> His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing".

In german that would be Nichtsnutz. Would the english word deadbeat mean the same?

[grhmc]

Yep!