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.

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. ]

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.

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 108 ‘No 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.

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).

单词	nohow
释义	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 108 ‘No 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). < adv.adj.1775
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