Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A byword; a proverbial reproach.
- noun A watchword.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
byword orproverb . - noun obsolete A
watchword .
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Examples
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For Monsieur Malvolio, let me alone with him: if I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:
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Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her and we have a nayword how to know one another.
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For Monsieur Malvolio, let me alone with him: if I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed.
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For Monsieur Malvolio, let me alone with him: if I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:
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If I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed. "
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
hernesheir commented on the word nayword
A hiss and a nayword.
December 30, 2011
qms commented on the word nayword
His small talking skills being wayward
He chattered at times like a jaybird.
For marital peace
His babble would cease
If she uttered the pre-arranged nayword.
July 25, 2016