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Nope
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- 1 Martha's Vineyard archaic
"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."
- 1 A negative reply, no. informal
"I'll take that as a nope, then."
- 2 A bullfinch. archaic
"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."
- 3 A blow to the head. East-Midlands, Northern-England
"(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."
- 4 An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration. slang
"This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope."
- 1 No. emphatic, informal, often
""Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet.""
- 1 To hit someone on the head. East-Midlands, Northern-England, archaic
""Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter."
Etymology
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] in 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]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup.
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] in 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]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup.
Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp (“bullfinch”).
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
From a Wampanoag name for the island (or perhaps just for Gay Head, as 1841 cite).
See also for "nope"
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