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(slang) No.
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(slang) Nothing; nix; often in the phrase "ixnay on ...", indicating something that must not be mentioned, often in Pig Latin quotations
Homer Simpson: Being a cop husband is one mighty sweet deal. This police radio entertains me with other people's miseries, we get a free funeral for Marge (god forbid), and I can run background checks on whomever I want . . Mohammar. Moe Szyslak: Homer, please, please! Ixnay on the ohammar-May!
1995 May 7, Mark Kirkland, “The Springfield Connection”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 23, production code 2F21
"Ixnay on the ay-geth...way! I'm only 'out' to my closest friends! It can't get back to my family!"
2007 January 29, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Jan 29, 2007
Voice, ixnay on the estioning-quay of Iery-fay Ecretary-say!
2022 July 15, DRWolf001, “TF2 Analysis: New Opportunities Part 2”, in YouTube, spoken by Thespio
third-person singular simple present ixnays, present participle ixnaying, simple past and past participle ixnayed
(slang, transitive) To reject something. quotations
If I wasn't so bored out of my mind, I would have ixnayed that idea.
2009, Kathleen Kaska, Murder at the Arlington, Salvo Press
Personally, I'd rather feel momentarily bummed when my agent ixnays a two-paragraph idea than totally crushed when she ixnays a 110-page screenplay it took six months to perfect.
2013, Gervich Chad, How to Manage Your Agent: A Writer’s Guide to Hollywood Representation, CRC Press, page 295
You didn't want to ask for a handout—you have a vague memory of him ixnaying advances when you signed your contract—but you don't have much choice.
2015, Angelina Mirabella, The Sweetheart: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 158