nope

Etymology 1
Representing pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare, , , and.

Particle

 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 不啊, 不是啊
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic: neibb
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, no po ,
 * Swedish: nepp
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1)  A negative reply, no.
 * 2) * 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN 1582614288 (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.
 * 1)  An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
 * 2) * 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot,
 * This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
 * This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: nepp
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2
Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp.

Noun

 * 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) * 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.

Etymology 3
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.

Noun

 * 1)  A blow to the head.

Verb

 * 1)  To hit someone on the head.

Interjection

 * 1)  nope

Etymology 1
, from, , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1) a tuft of wool; a knot in a fabric; nap

Etymology 2
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