nobody
pron/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i//ˈnoʊ.bə.di/US
Etymology
From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
- inherited from nobody
Definitions
Not any person
Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
- I asked several people, but nobody knew how.
- As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.
- Nobody phoned, did they?
A person dismissed as unimportant.
- “‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?”
Something that has no body or an especially small one.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nobody. 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