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nope

particle
/nəʊp/UK/noʊp/US

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.

Definitions

  1. No.

    • "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."
    • “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."

  2. A 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.

  3. An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate…

    An 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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A bullfinch.

      • 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.

    2. 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.

    3. To 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?"

    4. Martha'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.

The neighborhood

Derived

nope out, Nopeville

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nope. 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