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▪ I. naow, adv.1|næʊ|
[Repr. colloq. or vulgar pronunc.]
= now adv. Cf. nah adv.1
1897Kipling Capt. Cour. i. 16 Naow let's hear all abaout it. 1901G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion ii. 250 Drinkwater (in an agony of protest) Naow, naow. Look eah—. 1963N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) ii. 51 ‘Ah well, naow,’ said the Mayor. 1982N.Y. Times 7 Feb. ii. 3/3 When his ‘How now?’ becomes ‘Haow naow?’, even Eliza Doolittle would disapprove. 1985I. Handl Sioux vii. 90 You, Ouisti, y'all will got to hold it naow, Grand M'sieu he don't stop for nothing on the road.
▪ II. naow, adv.2|nɑʊ|
[Repr. colloq. or vulgar pronunc.]
= no adv.3 (also no a.). Cf. na adv.2, nah adv.2
1901G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion i. 222 Ennywys, there ynt naow awm in ahr business. Ibid. ii. 250 Na-a-a-a-ow. Aw cawnt, aw teol yer. Aw sy, look eah. Naow, naow, naow, naow, naow, naow!!! 1931D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings viii. 92 ‘Did ye drive Mr. Gowan... In the two-seater?’ ‘Naow, in the saloon.’ 1938N. Marsh Artists in Crime iii. 31 ‘You don't usually start off like this, do you?’ ‘Naow, that's right, I don't, but I thought I'd give it a pop.’ 1981Guardian Weekly 8 Feb. 19/2 Does a sharp operator like Mr Murdoch want the Times in order to preserve it on the same sad course that loses it an annual fortune? Naow, cobber. 1987A. Price New Kind of War ii. 55 Under canvas?.. Naow, major, sir—we're snug enough. |