nayword

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noun

A byword or proverb.

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Meanings

nounnayword (plural naywords)

plural naywords

  1. obsoleteA byword or proverb.
  2. obsoleteA watchword or catchphrase.

    Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her and we have a nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in white, and cry 'mum;' she cries 'budget;' and by that we know one another.

    c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]
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Chicago

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