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单词 nohow
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nohowadv.adj.

Brit. /ˈnəʊhaʊ/, U.S. /ˈnoʊˌhaʊ/
Forms: 1700s– nohow, 1900s– noohow (regional).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: no adj., how adv.
Etymology: < no adj. + how adv. Compare slightly earlier somehow adv., anyhow adv. Compare also earlier no way adv.
Chiefly colloquial and regional in later use.
A. adv.
1.
a. By no course of action, method, or agency; in no way, by no means, not at all.
(a) As the sentence negative. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adverb] > not > not at all
noughteOE
nothingOE
nonewaysc1225
not a dealc1250
nothing soa1393
no-gatea1400
no-gatesa1400
no waya1400
nowaysa1400
riff no raff?a1400
in (also on, by) no kins way(s) (or wise)c1400
nowisec1425
no whitc1520
none1533
never a dysec1540
vengeance1556
in no sort1561
none ofc1571
nil1581
none1651
nowhat1651
nohow1775
du tout1824
nowt1828
nix1862
nary1895
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > [adverb] > by no means
no waya1400
in no sauce1542
for love or money?1576
nil1581
nohow1775
not exactly1893
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ix. 266 I am so entangled with this Woman, that I know no how to extricate myself. View more context for this quotation]
1775 in Lett. Earl Malmesbury (1870) I. 300 A course of habitual improvement which nohow else is to be acquired.
1795 Montford Castle II. 42 Edmund..could nohow insert the point of his sword.
1841 J. F. W. Herschel Ess. (1857) 212 This is a modification of the idea of cause, which we can no-how bring ourselves to conceive.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 148/2 Not being his father, the misfortune could nohow be attributed to me.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xvi. 225 Nohow could anything be elicited from this mute and inoffensive assembly.
1918 Stars & Stripes 15 Feb. 3/1 Its dormitories can be distinguished from the lecture halls by the numbers over the doors, and nohow else.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 680 Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear?
(b) Chiefly U.S. (nonstandard in later use). With another negative. nohow you could fix it: whatever you do.
ΚΠ
1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. ix. 205 It's morally impossible for us to see you nohow at all.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xv. 296 Mother had chanced to send him of a message to Father, and then Father had bid him bring up them two bits of board for he could not no how do without them. View more context for this quotation
1833 J. Hall Harpe's Head 91 They don't raise such humans in the old dominion, no how.
1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas 125 The people in Texas would have nothing to do with that affair, nohow they could fix it.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. 246 That don't dovetail nohow.
1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 410/1 He wouldn't let it stand nohow.
1929 H. W. Odum in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 187 Boys jes' natchelly tired an' don't want to work no-how.
1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee xxii. 287 Ford..asked what he was going to do ‘seeing as how nobody could find a job nohow’.
1997 D. Quinn My Ishmael (1999) 227 Why it was so all-fired important to return a gorilla to Africa was just not going to be discussed nohow.
b. U.S. regional (esp. south Midland). In any case; anyway.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > at all events, at any rate
alwayc1405
alwaysa1413
of all hands1548
when all is said and done?1570
after all1590
howevera1616
at all rates1667
at any rate1730
whether or no1784
anyhow1799
anyways1828
anyhows1830
anyway1832
any road1855
anywise1859
whatever1870
any old how1900
anyhoo1924
nohow1926
anyroads1929
1926 E. M. Roberts Time of Man 30 You keep down along the branch nohow.
1942 J. Thomas Blue Ridge Country 108No how,’ Jorde was off on another defense, ‘land up here..is not fitten to farm so we have allus made whiskey of it.’
1946 L. Lenski Blue Ridge Billy xii. 177 Who cares about possums nohow?
a1960 L. Hughes & Z. N. Hurston Mule Bone (1991) 37 Dis is a colored town. Nohow we oughter run by de laws uh de Bible.
2.
a. In a poor or sickly state of health; (also) in no particular manner or condition; without distinctive or orderly appearance or character. Also: untidy. English regional in later use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adverb]
so-so1530
indifferently?c1550
meanly1550
colourlessly1572
indifferent1583
passable1591
passablya1610
nohow1779
so-soishly1842
so-and-so1844
monochromatically1890
serviceably1896
comme ci, comme ça1945
1779 F. Burney Jrnl. 11 Jan. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 219 I could not speak a Word, & I dare say I looked no how.
1853 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 430 The air has been filled..with a dense fog, which has made everything look ill, or more properly speaking, look no-how.
1888 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 283 New York..is just now nohow, an uninteresting mass of houses.
1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 160 I wunt ask yo' in now, Tom; the place is nohow.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ix. 243 ‘You don't look very well, my lad.’.. ‘I dunno... I feel anyhow or nohow.’
1964 E. Bowen Little Girls ii. i. 82 Her shortish, thick, stiff hair sprang about, nohow.
1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 59 That wold rick is maade noohow.
b. all nohow: out of order, out of sorts. English regional in later use. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts
out of estatec1400
disordainedc1430
out of order1530
mistempered?1541
untemperate1541
so-soa1592
indisposed1598
discomposed1603
out of sorts1621
disorderly1655
queerish1684
out of one's gears1699
disordered1708
uneasy1725
seedy1729
queer1749
scaly1803
quisby1807
under the weather1827
all nohow1852
toneless1854
nohowish1867
chippy1868
fishy1868
off-colour1876
dicky1883
on-and-offish1888
cheap1891
crook1916
lousy1933
1852 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 174 You were ‘decidedly better’, and now again ‘all nohow’.
1865 All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 7 Dec. 42/2 Ain't Mr. Beach so well this morning? You look all nohow.
1897 J. Gordon Village & Doctor 105 [Sussex] They be ins and outs, all no how!
a1903 L. C. Musters in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 290/2 [Nottinghamshire] Don't put your hat on like that, all nohow.
B. adj.
Having no distinctive character. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adjective]
feeblec1275
demeanc1380
unnoblec1384
coarse1424
colourlessc1425
passable1489
meana1500
indifferent1532
plain1539
so-so1542
mediocre1586
ordinary1590
fameless1611
middling1652
middle-rate1658
ornery1692
so-soish1819
nohow1828
betwixt and between1832
indifferential1836
null1847
undazzling1855
deviceless1884
uncompetitive1885
tug1890
run of the mill1919
serviceable1920
dim1958
spammy1959
comme ci, comme ça1968
vanilla1972
meh2007
1828 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 29 She is a comfortable, no how, little, good-natured thing.
1913 F. M. Mayor Third Miss Symons viii. 88 What a very no-how person Miss Symons is; I should like to shake her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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