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Naw

//nɔ// intj, slang

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Intj
  1. 1
    No. informal

    ""Naw, no trouble. Just pulled off the road for about ten minutes, maybe, when a couple of Nip fighters banked overhead. They were after something or other." "Is that right?" Mac replied."

  2. 2
    Pronunciation spelling of not. Jamaica, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

Etymology

In Scottish use, from Scots naw, naa, na, from Middle English na, from Old English nā (“no, never”). More generally, a colloquial, unarticulated form of no; compare nah. More at no.

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