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- interjection No.
- verb transitive Do not do or talk about (something).
Etymologies
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Examples
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I wanted to tell him "ixnay" because I could already see a few female eyes glazing over and jaws clenching in paper-thin tolerance.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 · 1. Believe it or not, "The House Bunny" 2. Toilet paper 3. Wanderlust 4. When people make that cutting-their-throat motion and say "ixnay" 5. A handsome set of mismatched coffee mugs
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ATVI): "You come to me with Activision and I say 'ixnay'."
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And ixnay on Yet Another Xenophobia aimed at particular trading partners, falsely blamed for our economic woes.
William Easterly: The Coffee Party Manifesto William Easterly 2010
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(I wish you would ixnay the tariff talk, but I still like you.)
Archive 2009-01-01 KaneCitizen 2009
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(I wish you would ixnay the tariff talk, but I still like you.)
Open letter to Barack Obama on what to do about Harry Nicolaides KaneCitizen 2009
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Likewise it was ixnay on the ommentcay when asked about reports former show exec producer Nigel Lythgoe is returning triumphant to the show after having been pushed aside a couple seasons back when that was their Really Bright Idea for jump-starting the show and revving up its ratings.
Fox suits: No "Idol" deals. Seriously. We mean it. For realsers. 2010
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So, Hood, you blabbermouth, ixnay on the Erduepay is Atansay, okay? posted by Mungowitz @ 5/12/2008 01: 52: 00 PM
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Likewise, it was ixnay on the ommentcay when asked about reports that former show exec producer Nigel Lythgoe is returning triumphant to the show after having been pushed aside a couple of seasons back when that was their Really Bright Idea for jump-starting "Idol" and revving up ratings.
'D.C. Cupcakes' will get second season; only Ryan Seacrest certain on 'Idol' 2010
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Sarah Dowling's poetry has appeared in The Capilano Review, Cue, Descant, EOAGH, How2, and West Coast Line, and is forthcoming in Dusie and the ixnay reader.
Sarah Dowling reads Erin Moure Lemon Hound 2009
uselessness commented on the word ixnay
Pig Latin for nix.
"Ixnay on the Eadhay of the Avigatornay!"
January 18, 2008
bilby commented on the word ixnay
"Something glinted and caught his eye. He hissed to the nearest kid, 'Ixnay on the ottlebay!' The eight-year-old, squirming in his unaccustomed clothes, flushed and tucked the busted bottle farther out of sight."
- Frederik Pohl and C M Kornbluth, 'Gladiator-at-Law', 1955.
June 26, 2009