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  • verb Eye dialect spelling of never mind.

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Examples

  • But nemmine, I's gwine to happen aroun 'dah one o' dese days en let on dat I reckon he wants to print a chillen's fingers ag'in; en if HE don't notice dey's changed, I bound dey ain't nobody gwine to notice it, en den I's safe, sho '.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • "Yo 'chillern' tend to yo 'bisness an' nemmine what gwine on over yander."

    Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

  • He say, nemmine, he'll know Whitey ag'in, even if he don 'know you!

    Short Stories of Various Types Various

  • He say, nemmine, he'll know Whitey ag'in, even if he don 'know you!

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

  • But nemmine, I's gwine to happen aroun 'dah one o' dese days en let on dat I reckon he wants to print

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

  • Dey went ter de ol 'wolfs, de cunjerers, an' dey ses: 'We is a slow people an' you is a swif people, but nemmine dat, we dyar's you-all to a race, an 'ef you-all wins, den you kin kill we-all; an' ef we-all wins, den we gwine exescoot you.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Ef it wuz him dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?'

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • Ef it wuz HIM dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?'

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • Ef it wuz HIM dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?'

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last Mark Twain 1872

  • De Lord's got plenty san ', I ain't doubtin' dat; but nemmine, He ain't gwyne to

    Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 1872

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