nobody
Use Nobody in a sentence
i, -ˌbʌd pronoun
1.
no person; not anyone; no one: Nobody answered, so I hung up.
noun, plural no·bod·ies.
2.
a person of no importance, influence, or power.
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| —pron | |
| 1. | no person; no-one |
| —n , -bodies | |
| 2. | an insignificant person |
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Nobody
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| 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
nobody
1338, no body, from M.E. no (adj.) "not any" + bodi "body." Written as two words 14c.-18c.; hyphenated 17c.-18c. Incorrect use with their is attested from 1548.
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Idioms & Phrases
nobody
In addition to the idioms beginning with nobody, also see like crazy (nobody's business).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
There were a great number of miscellaneous little jobs which there was nobody handy to do.
Nobody in the administration of my university is capable of doing any math and realizing anything.
It is not catchy, and nobody pays a blind bit of notice.
The bottom line is nobody knows how the brain works.
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