nohow en · ADV
Pronunciation
Etymology
From no + how.
Meanings
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(nonstandard, not-comparable, qualifier:African-American Vernacular) In no way; not at all; by no available means.
And 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:Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent.
1950 June 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo:"We don't see it here nohow," returned the man.
1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter V, in Treasure Island:"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 73:“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 216:
Deriveds
Translations (5)
pl w żaden sposób (in no way) · eo neniel (in no way) · pl pod żadnym względem (in no way) · pl bynajmniej (in no way) · pl żadną miarą (in no way)