Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Nay-word

Pass-word. Slender in The Merry Wives of Windsor, says-

“We have a nay-word how to know each other I come to her in white and cry Mum, she cries Budget, and by that we know one another” —Shakespeare.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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