Nope
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nope¹
- /nəʊp/ UK
- /noʊp/ US
- [noʊp̚] US
Rhymes with -əʊp
Where it comes from
Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Therefore no + -p. Compare yep/yup.
particle
- No. "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
noun nopes
- A negative reply, no. I'll take that as a nope, then.
- An 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.
nope²
- /nəʊp/
Rhymes with -əʊp
Where it comes from
Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp (“bullfinch”).
noun nopes
- A bullfinch. 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
nope³
- /nəʊp/
Where it comes from
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
noun nopes
- A blow to the head. (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.
verb nopes · noping · noped
- To hit someone on the head. "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
Nope⁴
Where it comes from
From a Wampanoag name for the island (or perhaps just for Gay Head, as 1841 cite).
proper noun
- Martha's Vineyard 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.
