noway
Multiple Entries:noway no
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
noway /ˈnəʊweɪ/ (also noways)
▶adverb chiefly archaic or N. Amer. not at all.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
no/nəʊ/
▶determiner
- 1 not any.
- 2 quite the opposite of: it was no easy task.
- 3 hardly any.
- 1 [with comparative] not at all: they were no more able to do it than I was.
- 2 Scottish not.
– phrases
no can do informal I am unable to do it.
no go informal impossible, hopeless, or forbidden.
no longer not now as formerly.
no place N. Amer. nowhere.
not take no for an answer persist in spite of refusals.
no two ways about it no possible doubt about something.
no way informal under no circumstances; not at all.
no worries informal, chiefly Austral. all right; fine.
or no or not.
no can do informal I am unable to do it.
no go informal impossible, hopeless, or forbidden.
no longer not now as formerly.
no place N. Amer. nowhere.
not take no for an answer persist in spite of refusals.
no two ways about it no possible doubt about something.
no way informal under no circumstances; not at all.
no worries informal, chiefly Austral. all right; fine.
or no or not.
– origin OE nō, nā (adv.), from ne ‘not’ + ō, ā ‘ever’.
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