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Nope
noun

(archaic) http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=-7875000.40765448&Y=5035000.97286449&width=700&height=400&gride=-7872524.40765448&gridn=5037401.97286449&srec=0&coordsys=mercator&db=US&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=Chilmark&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=200000&out.x=6&out.y=9 Martha's Vineyard.

- 1841, John Warner Barber, Historical Collections, Dorr, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03478438&id=ZJDQBC_vojoC&pg=RA6-PA146&lpg=RA6-PA146&dq=Nope+date:1841-1841&num=100 p. 146,
- : The principal island, Martha's Vineyard...Its usual Indian name was Capawock, though sometimes called . (It is believed that was more properly the name of Gay Head.) The greatest part of the island is low and level land.
- 1848, By S. G. (Samuel Gardner) Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, from Its First Discovery, B. B. Mussey, http://books.google.com/books?id=_bR9sz0aKFYC&vid=ISBN0665347731&dq=nope&pg=RA1-PA118&lpg=RA1-PA118&q=nope p. 118
- :Miohqsoo, or Myoxeo, was another noted Indian of . He was a convert of Hiacoomes, whom he had sent for to inquire of him about his God.
- 1853, Sarah Sprague Jacobs, Nonantum and Natick, Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, http://books.google.com/books?id=qUtm1izYgrQC&vid=OCLC07102684&dq=nope&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&q=nope p. 189,
- :R. Gookin calls it ; other writers call it Capawack. It is the island known to us as Martha's Vineyard...As Mr Eliot's first convert, Waban, was, through life, a sober, upright man, so Hiacoomes, the first Christian Indian of , always preserved an unspotted reputation.
- 1891, Wilberforce Eames, James Constantine Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, Government Print Office, ISBN 0665120524, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0665120524&id=iOHzHQUF-2gC&q=nope+date:1891-1891&dq=nope p. 350,
- : A catechism in the dialect of the Indians of or Martha's Vineyard.
- 1895, Boston Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Transactions, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01719846&id=rIdYcZDU9REC&dq=nope+date:1895-1895&num=100&q=nope p. 187,
- :Their story, as written by Daniel Gookin in 1674, is worth repeating: At the island of , or Martha's Vineyard, about the year 1649, one of the first ...

Etymology: From a w:Wampanoag, Wampanoag name for the island (or perhaps just for Gay Head, as 1841 cite).(wikipedia, Martha's Vineyard)

nope
noun

(informal) A negative reply, no.

I'll take that as a nope, then.

- 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN: 1582614288 (2001), http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1582614288&id=ldNYIIt4I4AC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&vq=nopes&dq=nopes&sig=9stKPCvnVjAHCVFsC6IgSDZpTJc p. 32
- : 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.
- 2002, Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication Across Disciplines, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN: 1556197543, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1556197543&id=9Jx1VU2QL9IC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&vq=nope&dq=nope&sig=5i-Wd9tU_9HZ7G8tkmcBRvRGSZY p. 19,
- : Now 'Yeah,' 'Yep' and' Nope 'are always given as examples of what we do with 'Yes' and 'No' in English and it has become (particularly for foreigners) a sort of linguistic myth.
- 2005, Suzanne Eggins, Diana Slade, Analysing Casual Conversation, Equinox Publishing Ltd, ISBN: 1845530462, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1845530462&id=cTEkm6WzfNgC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&vq=nope&dq=nope&sig=f0YK9fCtD30R1elW0vDE3VZTJig p. 97
- :While Yeah occurs very frequently in casual talk, No and its conversational derivatives of , naw, nup, etc. are relatively infrequent.

Translations:

verb (nopes, noping, noped)

(italbrac, East Midlands and Northern England) (italbrac, archaic) To hit someone on the head.

- 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., http://books.google.com/books?id=mu6MfIsJP-sC&vid=OCLC08025838&dq=nope&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&q=nope p. 183,
- :"Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
- 1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., http://books.google.com/books?id=NFjeJOXjp7IC&vid=OCLC03390179&dq=nope&q=nope+date%3A0-1900&pgis=1 p. 65
- : The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"

adverb

(informal) no, No.

- 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, http://books.google.com/books?id=FzYPAAAAIAAJ&vid=OCLC05086871&dq=nope&q=nope+date%3A1856-1856&pgis=1 p. 97,
- : "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
- 1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, http://books.google.com/books?id=APMBAAAAQAAJ&vid=0bKNauNGn8H-hgNW&dq=nope&q=nope+date%3A1880-1880&pgis=1 p. 319,
- : "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "."
- 1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, http://books.google.com/books?id=HWPK9I3ps0cC&vid=OCLC35453526&dq=nope&q=nope+date%3A1890-1890&pgis=1 p. 50
- :"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."
- c1930, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, http://books.google.com/books?vid=0oBmZzL0BOTGILj945&id=2Ix4fXu2rAkC&q=nope+%22Indian+grunt%22&dq=nope+%22Indian+grunt%22&num=100&pgis=1 p. 13
- : 1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and ""...
- 2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse?, ISBN: 1420895184, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1420895184&id=p0WpHOdxmPAC&pg=RA1-PA54&lpg=RA1-PA54&vq=nope&dq=nope&sig=vYuK0fJAS-h9J4s-T_hrlnKRxh8 p. 54,
- :Nope. Don't know as I do.

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