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Definition of Nayword
1. n. A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.
Definition of Nayword
1. Noun. (obsolete) A byword or proverb. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A watchword. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nayword
1. a catchword [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nayword
Literary usage of Nayword
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"O, if I thought that, I 'd beat him like a dog! 127. a nayword Rowe I an ... 127.
nayword : byword, proverb. This is plainly the meaning here, ..."
2. Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare (1907)
"There it is = watchword ; here it is = byword. Dyce quotes Forby, Vocab. of E.
Anglia : "nayword ... A bye- word ; a laughing-stock. ..."
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