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"ref": "1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, page 97",
"text": "\"Is my son here, Clarence?\" asked Roger Oakley. \"Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet.\"",
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"ref": "1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, page 319",
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"ref": "1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, page 50",
"text": "“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.\"",
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"ref": "c. 1930, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, page 13",
"text": "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\"[…]",
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"ref": "2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, page 54",
"text": "Nope. Don't know as I do.",
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"roman": "bù a",
"sense": "informal \"no\"",
"word": "不啊"
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"sense": "informal \"no\"",
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"word": "bah"
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"sense": "informal \"no\"",
"word": "नहीं"
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "informal \"no\"",
"word": "enggak"
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"word": "違う"
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"word": "아니"
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"ref": "1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC (2001), p. 32",
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"(informal) A negative reply, no."
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"ref": "2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, https://web.archive.org/web/20160731215210/http://moviepilot.com/posts/4016375",
"text": "This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope."
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"text": "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,\nTo 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."
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"ref": "1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255",
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"ref": "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, page 380",
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"ref": "1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, page 583",
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"ref": "1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, page xci",
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"ref": "1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, page 69",
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"ref": "1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., page 183",
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"ref": "1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., page 65",
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"ref": "1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, page 97",
"text": "\"Is my son here, Clarence?\" asked Roger Oakley. \"Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet.\"",
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"ref": "1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, page 319",
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"ref": "1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, page 50",
"text": "“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.\"",
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"ref": "c. 1930, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, page 13",
"text": "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\"[…]",
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"ref": "2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, page 54",
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"word": "不啊"
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"ref": "1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC (2001), p. 32",
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"A negative reply, no."
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"(informal) A negative reply, no."
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"ref": "2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, https://web.archive.org/web/20160731215210/http://moviepilot.com/posts/4016375",
"text": "This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope."
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"sense": "informal \"no\"",
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}
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"text": "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,\nTo 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."
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"ref": "1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255",
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"ref": "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, page 380",
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"ref": "1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, page 583",
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"ref": "1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, page xci",
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"ref": "1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, page 69",
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"ref": "1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., page 183",
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"ref": "1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., page 65",
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