ix-nay

English

Noun

ix-nay (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of ixnay
    • 2007 June 12, Con Lehane, Death at the Old Hotel: A Bartender Brian McNulty Mystery, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 65:
      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.
    • 2018 January 8, Marsha Collier, “Book 3: Selling Like a Pro”, in eBay Business All-in-One for Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN, page 232:
      Ix-nay on bonuses, giveaways, raffles, or prizes

Verb

ix-nay (third-person singular simple present ix-nays, present participle ix-naying, simple past and past participle ix-nayed)

  1. Alternative form of ixnay
    • 2004 May 17, Mary Roach, “Remains of the Author”, in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 291:
      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.”
    • 2014 November 15, David Pietrusza, Dance Hall: A Novel of Sing Sing, Church & Reid Books, →ISBN, page 183:
      Ix-nay, kid. Ix-nay. Don’t even think about anything so lame-brained.
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