i Origin:
1740–50; variant of ne'er a never a
1740–50; variant of ne'er a never a
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| —adv | |
| dialect not; never: nary a man was left | |
| [C19: variant of ne'er a never a] | |
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Nary
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
nary
1746, alteration of ne'er a, short for never a.
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Example sentences
Though there's nary a station wagon in sight, the quality of this privileged life is eerily suburban.
The result is buttery smooth graphics and nary a pixel point to be seen.
There was nary a word officially from the organization.
As a result, hundreds of visitors trudge daily through the building with nary a thought of it collapsing.
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