单词 | never nother |
释义 | > as lemmasnever nother a. never nother: neither the one nor the other. Also in later use ner nother. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15391 Nauer neoðer nalde..þat þe king hit wusten. c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 192 I nam withholden yit with never nother. 1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) C v That god alone aprove our inwarde and outwarde actis, though men alow ner nother. 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 28v Wherof there is nere nother, commaunded but forbidden. never nother Neither. Frequently in neither nother (also † never nother, nother nother): †neither one nor the other (obsolete); (hence) neither one nor another, no other. In later use English regional and Caribbean. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > no, none, or not any > neither notherc1325 nouthera1393 neithera1400 nary1746 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 4561 Þer ne bileuede in noþer syde non heymon vnneþe. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 201 (MED) By neuere noþer weie I schal paye þe þat þou axest. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. met. iii. 52 Who so that sekith sothnesse, he nis in neyther nother habit, for he not nat al, ne he ne hath nat al foryeten. a1450 in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 68 (MED) And hed were fro þe body stad, Noþer partye were set at nouȝt. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye iii. sig. i3v Neither nother texte serveth anie whitte for purgatorye. 1533 T. More Apologye 180 There are fewe or none good in neyther nother parte. 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iv. v No sir, we come with no zick intendment on neither nother zide. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Nother-nother There idn nother-nother lemon vor to be had in the town, nit vor love nor money, zo Mr. Baker zess. 1957 F. A. Collymore Notes for Gloss. Barbadian Dial. (ed. 2) 59 I ain't got neither-nother sixpence. 1975 T. Callender It so Happen 99 He never going look at neithernother girl again. < as lemmas |
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