Meanings
- nonstandardnot comparableAfrican-American VernacularIn no way; not at all; by no available means.
"We don't see it here nohow," returned the man.
1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter V, in Treasure Island4 more examples
“Oh, dear, oh dear,” she said, “my stepmother has sent me all this long way to fill this sieve with water from the Well of the World’s End, and I can’t fill it no how at all.”
1890, Joseph Jacobs, “The Well of the World’s End”, in English Fairy Tales, page 216Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent.
1950 June 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo"You'd start bidding before you knew what you was doing. I won't permit it nohow."
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 73And his face clouded. “I don't know. I got to find out. Looks like I can't get my mind straight nohow.”
1953, James Baldwin, “Elizabeth’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 167
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
Esperanto neniel
- nenielin no way
Polish bynajmniej, żadną miarą
- bynajmniejin no way
- żadną miarąin no way
- w żaden sposóbin no way
- pod żadnym względemin no way
Rhymes & wordplay
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