Talk:nope

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Noun - sense #2 "A bullfinch" --Versageek 04:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

• This sense was added by User:Poccil a long time ago. Maybe in another language? SemperBlotto 07:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, Webster's 1913 [1] lists it with that def, with the note "Prov. Eng." However, I am unable to dig up any non-definition references in printed text. I tried such things as "a nope," which primarily gets scannos for rope, "nope feather", and "nope song". --Jeffqyzt 13:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, sometimes dictionaries get things rong. Rfvfailed. Andrew massyn 20:29, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Noun - sense #2 "A bullfinch" --Versageek 04:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

• This sense was added by User:Poccil a long time ago. Maybe in another language? SemperBlotto 07:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, Webster's 1913 [2] lists it with that def, with the note "Prov. Eng." However, I am unable to dig up any non-definition references in printed text. I tried such things as "a nope," which primarily gets scannos for rope, "nope feather", and "nope song". --Jeffqyzt 13:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, sometimes dictionaries get things rong. Rfvfailed. Andrew massyn 20:27, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, it's not wrong. I noticed OED had several cites, and got looking. It is a most frustrating word to cite, since about 99.9% of the 151,000 instances in books.google are either mis-scans of hope, rope, pope, none, note, etc or, since the 1850s, use as No. However, the bullfinch sense does seem to meet our CFI, and there are other uses too. I'm still working through it and will restore the definition, with cites, in the next few days.

Meanwhile (after edit conflict with the archiving...I was that close!) I've restored it here, "unstruck", so the discussion remains until I can report completion. --Enginear 16:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I have now restored the sense, added two more (noun & verb re blow to the head) and cited the lot. Also Nope, which turns out to have been the original name for Martha's Vineyard...perhaps some of those court testimonies need revisiting...Do you know where she had been? Nope. --Enginear 22:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Well done! Talk to talk page & rfvpassed. Andrew massyn

Can someone explain to me how this is an adverb rather than an interjection? --81.111.95.61 15:09, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Is the verb sense okay?

The example given is actually for nope out (which I have just created). Can one merely "nope"? Equinox ◑ 17:44, 15 May 2018 (UTC)