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NOHOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nohow mean? 

NOHOW (adverb)
  The adverb NOHOW has 1 sense:

1. in no manner; in no wayplay

  Familiarity information: NOHOW used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NOHOW (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In no manner; in no way

Context example:

We could nohow make out his handwriting


 Context examples 


“We don't see it here nohow,” returned the man.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He said, almost in the same words as formerly, that Ham was just the same, “wearing away his life with kiender no care nohow for 't; but never murmuring, and liked by all”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“They liked a bit o' fun, they did. They wasn't so high and dry, nohow, but took their fling, like jolly companions every one.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Now, if I can't get away nohow, and they tip me the black spot, mind you, it's my old sea-chest they're after; you get on a horse—you can, can't you?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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