nope

1. emphaticinformaloftenNo.

   Nope. Don't know as I do.

   2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 54

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   "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."

   1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, page 97

   "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."

   1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, page 319

   “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."

   1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, page 50

   1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope"[…]

   c. 1930, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, page 13

plural nopes

1. informalA negative reply, no.

   I'll take that as a nope, then.

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   By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.

   1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC (2001), p. 32

2. slangAn intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.

   This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.

   2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, https://web.archive.org/web/20160731215210/http://moviepilot.com/posts/4016375

plural nopes

1. archaicexcept near StaffordshireA bullfinch.

   I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.

   1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255

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   1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146, To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.

   In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope, or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder, a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.

   1836, David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement, page 380

   Nope, an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).

   1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, page 583

plural nopes

1. East MidlandsNorthern EnglandA blow to the head.

   I'll fetch thee a nope.

   1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, page 69

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   (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.

   1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, page xci

present singular third person nopes · participle present noping · participle past noped · past noped

1. East MidlandsNorthern EnglandarchaicTo hit someone on the head.

   "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.

   1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., page 183

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   The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"

   1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., page 65

1. archaicMartha's Vineyard

   1895, Boston Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Transactions, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, p. 187, Their story, as written by Daniel Gookin in 1674, is worth repeating: At the island of Nope, or Martha's Vineyard, about the year 1649, one of the first ...

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   The principal island, Martha's Vineyard...Its usual Indian name was Capawock, though sometimes called Nope. (It is believed that Nope was more properly the name of Gay Head.) The greatest part of the island is low and level land.

   1841, John Warner Barber, Historical Collections, Dorr, page 146

   Miohqsoo, or Myoxeo, was another noted Indian of Nope. He was a convert of Hiacoomes, whom he had sent for to inquire of him about his God.

   1848, By S. G. (Samuel Gardner) Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, from Its First Discovery, B. B. Mussey, p. 118

   1853, Sarah Sprague Jacobs, Nonantum and Natick, Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, p. 189, R. Gookin calls it Nope; other writers call it Capawack. It is the island known to us as Martha's Vineyard...As Mr Eliot's first convert, Waban, was, through life, a sober, upright man, so Hiacoomes, the first Christian Indian of Nope, always preserved an unspotted reputation.

   A catechism in the dialect of the Indians of Nope or Martha's Vineyard.

   1891, Wilberforce Eames, James Constantine Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, Government Print Office, →ISBN, page 350