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no man
Forms: α. 1 nán man (2 nan-, namman), 2 non man (1–3 mon), 4–5 none man. β. 2 namon, 2–4 na mon; 4–5 naman (5 Sc. -mane), 4, 6 Sc. na man, 8–9 Sc. nae man. γ. 3–5 nomon, no mon; 3–6 noman (5 -manne), 3– no man.
[f. none, no a. + man n. In early use both words have their ordinary inflections.]
1. a. No one, nobody.
αc888K. ælfred Boeth. xi. §1 Hie næfre to nanum men ne becumaþ. Ibid. xiii, Hi nan mon fullice habban ne mæᵹ, ne hie nanne mon ᵹeweleᵹian ne maᵹon. 971Blickl. Hom. 43 Ne for feo, ne for nanes mannes lufon. a1000Ags. Gosp. Luke x. 22 Nan man [Hatton namman] nat hwylc is se sunu buton se fæder. a1067in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 228 Ic nelle nanum men ᵹeðafian ðæt him æniᵹ ðara þinga ofnime ðe ic him ᵹeunnen hæbbe. a1175Cott. Hom. 217 Ȝif non man ne þoht of Gode, non ne spece of him. c1200Ormin 16164 Swa þatt nan mann ne þurrfte off himm, Ne nimenn gom, ne rekkenn. a1225Ancr. R. 68 Ut of chirche þurle ne holde ȝe none tale mid none monne. c1315Shoreham iii. 103 Coueyte none mannes wyf. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 15 That none man shuld dowte or mystruste of anothir life and world.
βa1200Moral Ode 22 in O.E. Hom. I. 161 Ne lipnie na mon to muchel to childe ne to wiue. c1205Lay. 7000 Ne cuðe na mon swa muchel of song. a1300Cursor M. 12381 Forth in pes he bad þam ga, To noi naman ne naman þaim. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxviii. (Adrian) 204 Tel me..quhy þu fled, seand na payne, na namane fichtand þe agane. 1483Cath. Angl. 248/2 Naman; nemo, nullus. 1508Dunbar Flyting 129 Commirwald crawdoun, na man comptis the ane kerse. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. iii. 20 Vnto na man was he odious. 1728Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 66 I'll unbar my door to nae man. 1791Burns Tam o' Shanter 67 Nae man can tether time or tide. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. v, There was nae man pinned down to sic a slavish wark as a saddler's.
γc1200Moral Ode 119 (Trin. Coll. MS.), Drihte ne demeð noman after his biginninge. a1250Owl & Night. 1539 Nis nomon þat ne may ibrynge his wif amys myd suche þinge. c1275Lay. 13259 Nas þar neuere no man Þat don þar mihte cristendom. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 4 Þere nys no man but ȝif he longe sum weie after blise. 1426Lydg. in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 135 Ageins which noman may maligne. c1475Childr. Lytil Bk. in Babees Bk. (1868) 20 At the tabylle..Loke þou rownde not in nomannys ere. 1535Coverdale Acts i. 20 The habitacion be voyde & noman be dwellinge therein. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 60 b, No man ought to be judge in his owne cause. 1606G. W[oodcock] Hist. Ivstine xxiii. 85 The country became so dangerous, that no man durst hardly stir abroad. 1642Eaton Honey-c. Free Justif. 249 No man almost receiveth his testimonie. 1781Cowper Convers. 62 Well known, or such as no man ever knew. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 851 His head is low, and no man cares for him.
b. [see no adv.3 and n.] A man who says ‘no’; one who is accustomed to disagree or to refuse requests in a resolute manner. colloq.
1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §400/3 Obstinate person..‘no’ man. Ibid. §421/1 Critic; opposer..‘no’ man (vs. ‘yes man’). 1959Listener 30 July 168/1 He [sc. Metternich] was the great ‘No-man’. One can make a long list of the changes he did not like. 1961Sunday Express 19 Feb. 8/4 Prince Philip..attacked what he called the ‘no-men’ who stood in the way of those with energy and imagination. 1967Listener 26 Jan. 143/1 The only role of the abominable no-men of Whitehall was to frustrate him at every turn.
2. no man's land:
a. A piece of waste, or unowned, land; in early use as the name of a plot of ground, lying outside the north wall of London, and used as a place of execution. See also quots. 1966 and 1972.
1320Ann. Paul. in Chron. Edw. I & II (Rolls) I. 291 Quædam domina nomine Juliana..fuit combusta apud Nonesmanneslond extra Londonius. 1326Ibid. 321 Quidam Arnoldus..a communitate ductus fuit..extra civitatem apud Nonesmanneslonde, et ibi decapitatus fuit. 1598Stow Survey of London 356 Ralph Stratforde Bishop of London, in the yeare 1348. bought a peece of ground called no mans land, which he inclosed with a wall of Bricke. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 563 This was a kind of Border, that might be called no Man's Land. 1881T. Hughes Rugby, Tennessee 50 A small lot of noman's land in the woods. 1876H. Brooks Natal 234 In 1866..the Government of the colony took possession of ‘No-man's-land’. 1890Dilke Prob. Gt. Brit. I. 517 The country is not a no-man's land. 1902Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 34/1 The independent warlike tribes formerly sandwiched in a No Man's Land between Afghanistan and India. 1909Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 14/1 This place has a higher attraction..for it is no-man's-land, eligible for building on, threatened, but as yet unoccupied. 1910Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 495/1 These cottages had been built..on ground between two roads, which was a kind of ‘no man's land’ and rent free. 1921C. A. W. Monckton Some Experiences New Guinea Resident Magistrate xxvi. 306 The country we were camped in was a sort of ‘no man's land’ or border land lying between the Baruga tribe and their mountain enemies. 1966G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough xiii. 136 The belief that a piece of land in the parish should be left untilled. In English villages this is sometimes called Jack's Land or No-Man's Land. 1972P. Newton Sheep Thief 187 No Man's Land, those areas of wild rough country, bounding the Southern Alps, which are not stocked. 1975Country Life 19 June 1637/1 Until the Dutchman Vermuyden came on the scene..to control..the river Great Ouse..much of the region was a marshy no-man's-land through which..the only means of transport was by boat.
b. Naut. (See quot.)
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780). No Man's Land, a space between the after-part of the belfrey and the fore-part of a ship's boat, when the said boat is stowed upon the booms... The space called No man's land is used to contain any blocks, ropes, tackles, &c. which may be necessary on the forecastle.
c. fig.
1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. 6 Some observers have established an intermediate kingdom, a sort of no-man's-land, for the reception of those debatable organisms. 1888H. A. Strong tr. Paul's Princ. Hist. Lang. ii. 28 This ‘no man's land’ forms a boundary wall through which the influences cannot pass from one side to the other. 1892Month July 445 The objectionable no-man's-land of Haeckel is likely..to remain for some time. 1954M. Beresford Lost Villages v. 166 The crucial years lie half in a no-man's-land of English historical research. 1959Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Nov. 16/4 One aim of the new law was to abolish the so-called ‘no-man's-land’ between Federal and state authority in labor cases. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 51 This is indeed a No Man's Land, virgin territory one might say. 1974‘H. Carmichael’ Motive iv. 53 One question chased another..questions that got lost in a no-man's-land of conjecture. 1974Kingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard 11 Jan. 7/1 Dossers are..men and women squeezed into a no-man's-land by an increasingly affluent society.
d. Mil. The terrain between the front lines of armies entrenched opposite one another.
1908Blackw. Mag. Dec. 761 Here and there in that wilderness of dead bodies—the dreadful ‘No-Man's-Land’ between the opposing lines—deserted guns showed up singly or in groups. 1915G. Adam Behind Scenes at Front 101 Perilous work it is repairing wire in the No Man's Land between trenches. 1936M. Plowman Faith called Pacifism 97 The order I received..to go out across No-man's-land, and cut the throat of the nearest German lad on sentry. 1973R. Hill Ruling Passion iii. ii. 173 They were keeping steadily on neutral ground and she was finding it a pleasant experience. Like football in no-man's-land during a Great War Christmas.
e. Lawn Tennis. (See quot. 1931.)
1931Doeg & Danzig Elem. Lawn Tennis 65 If you hesitate you are caught in what is known as ‘No Man's Land’, the territory between the service line and the baseline. 1969New Yorker 14 June 68/3 Graebner, in no man's land, drives the ball far into Ashe's backhand corner. |