nevermind

plural neverminds

1. USregionalAttention, heed.

   Hell, they've got groundrules and guidelines comin' out the kazoo, but do they pay any nevermind to 'em?

   2002, William Walling, It's Too Late to Leave Early

2. USregionalConcern, affair.

   "... buy what he wants. It's none of your nevermind."

   1949, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West, page 22

   1 more example

   "These is my brothers, Tom and Benjamin. We's from Missoura. Would you be Yankee or Secesh?" / "Neither one," Joe said. "Not that it's any nevermind o' yours, Mr. Wickersham."

   2008, Gary Franklin, Blood at Bear Lake, page 76

3. USregionalConsequence; significant change in or effect on a situation or state; difference.

   Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand.

   1997, Annie Jones, Irish Eyes, →ISBN, page 211

   3 more examples

   Let 'em say she was his mistress, that she was a witch. Wasn't true, but it didn't make any nevermind if they thought it was. Nice woman, quiet, could tell the cards.

   1926, Lester Cohen, Sweepings, page 306

   So it don't make a heap of nevermind to me which one you choose!

   2002, Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie, Pineapple Press, →ISBN, page 248

   If'n it makes any nevermind, you'll be grubbin' alongside me.

   2005, Larry Jay Martin, O'Rourke's Revenge, page 21

present singular third person neverminds · participle present neverminding · participle past neverminded · past neverminded

1. USregionalTo ignore.

   "Ya, that's a good idea, neverminding. Let's nevermind, huh?"

   2002, Chris Lynch, Freewill, page 28

   1 more example

   Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight.

   1989, William Mills, The Arkansas: An American River, page 159

2. alternativecolloquialproscribedAlternative spelling of never mind.

   Nevermind where the eggs & sperm came from. Nevermind how it is that all these planets & stars came from nothing.

   2005, Alexander T. Newport, The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good), page 399

   1 more example

   Nevermind that she didn't know him, or that he was Japanese. Nevermind that she saw herself as always alone, despite the many people in her life.

   2003, Nina Revoyr, Southland, page 280