Citations:nope

Noun
Etymology: Probably mutated from ope (see 1823 quote) from alp;


 * 1)  A bullfinch
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 1777, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology, Class I: Quadrupeds. Class II: Birds. Division I: Land. Vol. I. Fourth Edition, Benjamin White (1818), p.461,
 * (at the beginning of the section on Bulfinch in what appears to be a list of references, complete with the names the relevant authors used for the bird) Bulfinch, Alp or Nope. Wil. orn. 247.
 * 1) * 1816, Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes, A History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Berwick, Vol. 1, containing the History and Description of Land Birds, Thomas Bewick, p. 161
 * (section title) The Bullfinch, Alp or Nope. (Loxia Pyrrhula, Lin. -- Le Bouvreil, Buff.)
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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, p. 380
 * In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope, or an Ope; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt; and the Saxon nedder, a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.
 * 1) * 1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, p. 583,
 * Nope, an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).
 * 1) * 1885, The Birds of Lancashire, 1885, p. 37,
 * Nope, Blue Nope, Mope, Blue Mope, Tom-tit, Tit-nope, Tom-tit Nope, ...

Verb

 * 1) To say "no" or "nope" (to).
 * 2) * 1943, Motion Picture:
 * "Nope," noped the buck private. "I guess I&#39;ll just wait for Joan. Miss Lamarr and I are not the same age!"
 * 1) * 1944, The Shingle:
 * "Nope," noped Jerry, "I only want one!"
 * 1) To leave (a place, situation, etc), usually quickly, because of feelings of fear or disgust, and go to (elsewhere).
 * 2) * 2020, Mathew Henderson, Roguelike, House of Anansi (ISBN 9781487007829):
 * I felt their legs catching in my throat. I noped the fuck home before I choked for good, but kept playing — sunk costs; 240,000 hours ago. Now I see this world seed sucks: too RNG heavy, too pay-to-win. In the deepest part of Qud, in the jungle under the caves under the jungle,

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