nope

== English == === Etymology 1 === Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] in before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəʊp/ (General American) IPA(key): /noʊp/, [noʊp̚] Rhymes: -əʊp ==== Particle ==== nope (informal, often emphatic) No. ===== 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. ===== Antonyms ===== yup yep yeah ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Italian: nop → Portuguese: nop → Spanish: nop ===== Translations ===== ==== 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. (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, [2] This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope. ===== Derived terms ===== nope out Nopeville ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp (“bullfinch”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /nəʊp/ Rhymes: -əʊp ==== 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. ===== Quotations ===== For quotations using this term, see Citations:nope. === Etymology 3 === Possibly influenced by nape and knap. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /nəʊp/ ==== Noun ==== nope (plural nopes) (East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head. ==== 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. === References === === Anagrams === open, peno-, peon, pone == Dutch == === Etymology 1 === ==== Pronunciation ==== Hyphenation: no‧pe ==== Verb ==== nope (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of nopen === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== Hyphenation: nope ==== Interjection ==== nope (informal) nope === Anagrams === open == French == === Alternative forms === noppe === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nɔp/ === Etymology 1 === Borrowed 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 === Borrowed from English nope. ==== Interjection ==== nope (informal, neologism) nope === Further reading === “nope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012