nohow

adverb Nonstandard.

under no circumstances; in no way (usually preceded by another negative): I can't learn this nohow.

Origin:
1765–75; no² + how¹

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nohow (ˈnəʊˌhaʊ)

—*adv*
	not standard (in negative constructions)
	a. under any conditions
	b. in any manner

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Word Origin & History

nohow

"not at all," 1775, Amer.Eng., from no + how, on model of nowhere.

Example sentences

Can't get no letter now, don't need no letter nohow.

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"Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear? Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king."

-James Joyce

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