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nope
English
Etymology 1
Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yep and welp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /no?p/, [no?p?]
- Rhymes: -??p
Particle
nope
- (informal) No.
- 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, p. 97,
- "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
- 1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, p. 319,
- "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."
- 1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, p. 50
- “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."
- c1930, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, p. 13
- 1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope"...
- 2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, ?ISBN, p. 54,
- Nope. Don't know as I do.
- 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, p. 97,
Usage notes
The usage as a reply in the form of a single-word sentence has, since the 1850s, been far more common than any others.
Translations
Antonyms
- yup
- yep
- yeah
Noun
nope (plural nopes)
- (informal) A negative reply, no.
- 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, ?ISBN (2001), p. 32
- By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.
- 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, ?ISBN (2001), p. 32
- (slang) An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
- 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, [1]
- This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
- 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, [1]
Translations
Derived terms
- nope out
Etymology 2
Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??p/
- Rhymes: -??p
Noun
nope (plural nopes)
- (archaic, except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch
- 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,
- To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.
- 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255
- I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.
- 1836, David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement, p. 380
- In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope, or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder, a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.
- 1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, p. 583,
- Nope, an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).
- 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:nope.
Etymology 3
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??p/
Noun
nope (plural nopes)
- (East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.
- 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, p. xci
- (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.
- 1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, p. 69,
- I'll fetch thee a nope.
- 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, p. xci
Verb
nope (third-person singular simple present nopes, present participle noping, simple past and past participle noped)
- (archaic, East Midlands and Northern England) To hit someone on the head.
- 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., p. 183,
- "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
- 1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., p. 65
- The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"
- 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., p. 183,
Anagrams
- open, peno-, peon, pone
Dutch
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: no?pe
Verb
nope
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of nopen
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: nope
Interjection
nope
- (informal) nope
Anagrams
- open
French
Alternative forms
- noppe
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?p/
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch noppe (“a fluff of wool, wool tassel”), from Old Dutch *noppo, *hnoppo, from Proto-Germanic *hnuppô (“nap of cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *knew-, *kenw- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Old English hnoppa (“nap of cloth”). More at nap.
Noun
nope f (plural nopes)
- A tuft of wool; a knot in a fabric; nap.
Etymology 2
English nope
Interjection
nope
- (informal, neologism) nope
Further reading
- “nope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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dope
English
Etymology
From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *d?pen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijan?.
Sense “narcotic drug” originally from viscous opium pastes, “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Related to English dip and German taufen.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [d??p]
- (US) IPA(key): [do?p]
- Rhymes: -??p
Noun
dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)
- (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
- (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
- (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin. [from late 19th c.]
- (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]
- Synonym: scoop
- (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
- (countable, slang) A stupid person.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
- (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.
Derived terms
- dope fiend
- dope house
- dope man
- dope sheet
- dope slap/dope-slap
- dope story
- dopeless
Translations
Verb
dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)
- (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
- Synonym: administer
- (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
- (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
- (intransitive, now chiefly sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
- (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
Derived terms
- dope up
Descendants
Translations
Adjective
dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)
- (slang) Amazing.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awesome
Translations
References
Anagrams
- deop, depo, op-ed, oped, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, pode, poed
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [do?p?]
Verb
dope
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen
French
Etymology
From English dope
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?p/
Noun
dope f (plural dopes)
- (informal) illicit drug, narcotic
Verb
dope
- first-person singular present indicative of doper
- third-person singular present indicative of doper
- first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
- third-person singular present subjunctive of doper
- second-person singular imperative of doper
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?do?.p?]
Verb
dope
- inflection of dopen:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Ido
Etymology
From dop +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?do.pe/
Adverb
dope
- back, behind, aback
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dope/, [?d?o.pe]
Verb
dope
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dopar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dopar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dopar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dopar.
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