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nay-say, n.
Also naysay.
[f. nay adv. + say n.]
Refusal, denial.
1631R. H. Arraigum. Whole Creature v. 39 Hee will have no nay say. a1666Blair Autobiog. vi. (1848) 84 They would take no naysay. 1721Ramsay Ode to the Ph— xiii. (1877) II. 144 Nineteen nay says are ha'f a grant. 1762Sterne Let. to Mrs. Sterne 14 June, Whoever buys the fifth and sixth volumes of Shandy's must have the nay-say of the seventh and eighth. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf v, That..depends entirely on the manner in which the nay-says are said. 1857Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 44 Not Cromwell's faltering nay-say, nor Cæsar's affected disdain.
So nay-say v., to refuse (one). dial. and arch.
More freq. in dial. forms na- or nae-say.
1773Fergusson Election ix. Poet. Wks. (1800) 138 The foul ane durst him na-say. a1800James Hadley vii. in Child Ballads IV. 371/1 If it should be my hole estate, Naesaid, naesaid, it shall not be. 1864W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin xv, The evidence..was ower strong an' conclusive to be nae said. 1890Morris Glittering Plain xix, He naysaid them because he was fain of his work. |