see|Nope
English
Etymology 1
Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
Pronunciation
IPA|no�p
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��p|-��p
Adverb
en-adv|-
- informal no|No.
#*1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, p. 97,
#*: "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
#*1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, p. 319,
#*: "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."
#*1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, 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, 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 "nope"...
#*2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse?, ISBN: 1420895184, p. 54,
#*:Nope. Don't know as I do.
Translations
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Finnish: ei
Usage notes
The above usage has, since the 1850s, been far more common than any others.
Noun
en-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), 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, 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, p. 97
#*:While Yeah occurs very frequently in casual talk, No and its conversational derivatives of nope, naw, nup, etc. are relatively infrequent.
Translations
Finnish: ei
See also
yep
Etymology 2
Probably mutated from ope (see 1823 quote) from alp;
Pronunciation
IPA|n��p
Noun
en-noun
- italbrac|archaic except near Staffordshire, England 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.
#*1777, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology, Class I: Quadrupeds. Class II: Birds. Division I: Land. Vol. I. Fourth Edition, Benjamin White (1818), p.461,
#*: (at the beginning of the section on Bulfinch in what appears to be a list of references, complete with the names the relevant authors used for the bird) Bulfinch, Alp or Nope. Wil. orn. 247.
#*1816, Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes, A History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Berwick, Vol. 1, containing the History and Description of Land Birds, Thomas Bewick, p. 161
#*: (section title) The Bullfinch, Alp or Nope. (Loxia Pyrrhula, Lin. -- Le Bouvreil, Buff.)
#*1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255
#*: 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.
#* 1836, David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement, p. 380
#*: In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope, or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder, a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.
#*1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, p. 583,
#*: Nope, an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).
#*1885, The Birds of Lancashire'', 1885, p. 37,
#*:Nope, Blue Nope, Mope, Blue Mope, Tom-tit, Tit-nope, Tom-tit Nope, ...
Etymology 3
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
Pronunciation
IPA|n��p
Noun
en-noun
- italbrac|East Midlands and Northern England A blow to the head.
#* 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, p. xci
#*:(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.
#* 1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, p. 69,
#*:I'll fetch thee a nope.
Verb
en-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., p. 183,
#*:"Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
#*1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., p. 65
#*: The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"
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