ix-nay

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of ixnay

   Ix-nay on bonuses, giveaways, raffles, or prizes

   2018 January 8, Marsha Collier, “Book 3: Selling Like a Pro”, in eBay Business All-in-One for Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN, page 232

   1 more example

   He didn’t, though, so I figured I’d better get down there if for no other reason than to put the ix-nay on Sam’s cock-and-bull story about the three male strike leaders playing cards all night at an after-hours poker palace in Harlem.

   2007 June 12, Con Lehane, Death at the Old Hotel: A Bartender Brian McNulty Mystery, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 65

present singular third person ix-nays · participle present ix-naying · participle past ix-nayed · past ix-nayed

1. alternativeAlternative form of ixnay

   Ix-nay, kid. Ix-nay. Don’t even think about anything so lame-brained.

   2014 November 15, David Pietrusza, Dance Hall: A Novel of Sing Sing, Church & Reid Books, →ISBN, page 183

   1 more example

   When I told him I was thinking about joining the Harvard Brain Bank a couple of years back, he started shaking his head: “Ix-nay on the ainbrank-bray.”

   2004 May 17, Mary Roach, “Remains of the Author”, in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 291