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no clue

intj

Etymology

From no + clue, as the speaker does not have a clue about the answer to the question. Most likely a shortened form of "I have no clue".

  1. inherited from *glew-✻ — “to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”
  2. inherited from *kliuwīną✻
  3. inherited from *kliuwīn✻ — “ball, clump”
  4. inherited from clēowen
  5. inherited from clew
  6. compounded as no clue — “no + clue”

Definitions

  1. Response affirming that the speaker does not have knowledge pertaining to an…

    Response affirming that the speaker does not have knowledge pertaining to an interlocutor's question

    • Do you know what the weather will be like today? / No clue. Why do you ask?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for no clue. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA