Nopename

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  archaicMartha'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.
  • 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.

nopeparticle詞源 1/nəʊp/

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  informalNo.

  • "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
  • "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."

nopenoun詞源 1/nəʊp/

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  informalA negative reply, no.

  • I'll take that as a nope, then.
  • 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.
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  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.

nopenoun詞源 2/nəʊp/

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  archaicA 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 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.
  • 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.

nopenoun詞源 3/nəʊp/

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  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.
  • I'll fetch thee a nope.

nopeverb詞源 3/nəʊp/

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  archaicTo hit someone on the head.

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