Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In no way; not at all.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In no manner; not in any way; not at all.
- Out of one's ordinary way; out of sorts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb slang In no way;
not at all ; by no available means.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in no manner; in no way
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was serious money and they never disclosed nothin ', nohow, noway.
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An 'the colonel never telled me nothin' nohow 'bout any one uv you bein 'crazy.
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But the slower wits, such as Mr. Solomon and Mrs. Waule, who both occupied land of their own, took a long time to arrive at this conclusion, their minds halting at the vivid conception of what it would be to cut the Big Pasture in two, and turn it into three-cornered bits, which would be "nohow;" while accommodation-bridges and high payments were remote and incredible.
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But the slower wits, such as Mr. Solomon and Mrs. Waule, who both occupied land of their own, took a long time to arrive at this conclusion, their minds halting at the vivid conception of what it would be to cut the Big Pasture in two, and turn it into three-cornered bits, which would be "nohow;" while accommodation-bridges and high payments were remote and incredible.
Middlemarch 1871
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But the slower wits, such as Mr. Solomon and Mr.. Waule, who both occupied land of their own, took a long time to arrive at this conclusion, their minds halting at the vivid conception of what it would be to cut the Big Pasture in two, and turn it into three-cornered bits, which would be "nohow;" while accommodation-bridges and high payments were remote and incredible.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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I couldn't think o 'thet name nohow, but now you hev struck it fust clip. "
The Rover Boys on the River The Search for the Missing Houseboat Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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'I wanted easy ways, and lovely things, and Romance and all that; but it just seemed I had no luck nohow and was only and expressly born for cooking and dishwashing.
The Night-Born 2010
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I got the idea that she didn't want me to keep no flippit nohow, so's I feeded 'im on the sly.
The Celebrated Jumping Flippit of Tau-Ceti IV Hugh Barlow 2011
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Jose says he can't picture me yellow nohow — says it was alright on me as a baby, but as a grown girl he says "No way!" and frowns as if yellow is the nastiest color in the crayon box.
A Swallow of Cola 2010
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So, of course, the NFL has it written into the rulebook that no way, nohow, can any community replicate the Green Bay model.
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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