nope
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particle
particle- 1.
(emphatic, informal, often)(informal, often emphatic) No.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(informal)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.
- 2.
(slang)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.
- 3.
(archaic)(archaic, except near Staffordshire) A 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.
- 4.
(East Midlands, Northern England)(East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(East Midlands, Northern England, archaic)(archaic, East Midlands and Northern England) To hit someone on the head.
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Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final, with a purported reduction of to before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup.