单词 | nary |
释义 | naryadj.adv. Chiefly U.S. (regional and colloquial), English regional (south-western), and Irish English. A. adj. (determiner). Usually with a singular noun. 1. Neither; not a, not a single; no. Frequently in nary one. Occasionally with a plural noun. nary cent n. = nary red n. nary red n. U.S. not a cent, no money. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > no, none, or not any > no or not a noc1175 nary1746 the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > no, none, or not any > neither notherc1325 nouthera1393 neithera1400 nary1746 the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase] > lacking money out of cash1593 out of stock1648 stump1828 nary red1849 to be in the hole1890 society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > in possession of money [phrase] > possessing no money nary red1849 1746 N. Wright Jrnl. 6 Aug. in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1848) II. 209 The Indians..escaped them, and there was no ‘spile dunne on nary side’. 1821 Massachusetts Spy 14 Feb. He asked her whether she was most fond of writing prose or poetry. ‘Nary one,’ says she, ‘I writes small hand.’ 1849 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 6 May 2/6 I'm goin' tew get my breakfuss yere, and not pay ‘nary red’ till I dew! 1856 ‘J. Phoenix’ Phoenixiana 125 Playin at billiards and monte Till they've nary red cent to ante. 1863 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South I. 168 Another..replied to the demand for so many thousand soldiers, ‘Nary one.’ 1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 65 We hadn't nary cent to work it with. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 252 Of course it must be yours because you got all the knowance of books and I got nary knowance at all. 1989 R. Kenan Visitation of Spirits 147 It won't hurt nary one of you. 2. Preceding a or an in a noun phrase. Frequently in nary a one. nary a red n. = nary red n. at sense A. 1. ΚΠ 1856 Knickerbocker 47 99 ‘Aint you gwine for to give us three dollars?’ ‘Nary a red!’ sung out Hart. 1892 J. K. Lawson Vain Sacrifice 175 Nary a daughter nor a son has poor ould Dan. 1917 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony I. iv. x. 379 She would discover a thousand drawbacks to his scheme, but nary a one of the incorporeal benefits he dreamed of reaping from it. 1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon i. ii. 36 They've been thick as thieves all their lives, with nary a quarrel I kin remember. 1941 Time 6 Jan. 16/1 From the National Defense Advisory Commission,..there was nary a peep. 1990 Weekend Austral. 21–2 Apr. 12/5 When the cinema projectors finally flicker into life..nary a citizen of the United States will be left untouched. B. adv. As an emphatic negative: not, not at all, in no way; neither; not even. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adverb] > not > not at all noughteOE nothingOE nonewaysc1225 not a dealc1250 nothing soa1393 no-gatea1400 no-gatesa1400 no waya1400 nowaysa1400 riff no raff?a1400 in (also on, by) no kins way(s) (or wise)c1400 nowisec1425 no whitc1520 none1533 never a dysec1540 vengeance1556 in no sort1561 none ofc1571 nil1581 none1651 nowhat1651 nohow1775 du tout1824 nowt1828 nix1862 nary1895 1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage x. 102 There's too much depending on me fer me t' die yit. No, sir! Nary die; I can't! 1934 Z. Grey Code of West viii. 145 Wess, nary you or any of the boys figger my sawmill hand correct. 1977 T. Murphy Famine i. 13 Mark: That's what you'd call the ghostly fog... We had nothing like that this year... Brian: No faith now, we had narys the fog. 1995 Empire Nov. 30/2 There's nary two scraps of tuck to rub together, so how come there's a hundred weight of fags? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasn-ary b. In form n, italicized. [Compare German nfach n-fold (B. Riemann 1854, in Abhandl. der Königl. Ges. der Wissensch. zu Göttingen (1868) 13 134).] Used in place of bi-, di-, tri-, etc., in words, to denote an unspecified or variable factor or number, as n-adic, n-ary, n-fold adjs.; n-ic n., n-tuple n. and adj. Π 1873 G. Salmon Treat. Higher Plane Curves (ed. 2) Contents p. xi Number of points which determine a n-ic. 1878 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 1 83 In any compound an arbitarily selected group of m n-adic atoms may be replaced by a group of n m-adic atoms. 1880 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 3 2 It will be convenient to designate as an n-fold polyhedroid the n-dimensional figure which is bounded by (n − 1)-fold flat (not curved) figures. 1880 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 3 322 Each of the equations..indicates an n-tuple point at A. 1886 Proc. London Math. Soc. 17 171 (title) On ternary and n-ary reciprocants. 1940 E. T. Bell Devel. Math. xx. 401 An m-ary n-ic..is a homogeneous polynomial, with arbitrary constant coefficients, of degree n in m independent variables. 1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic ix. 306 A dyadic or triadic or n-adic relation. 1972 H. B. Enderton Math. Introd. Logic i. 50 An n-ary connective symbol combines with n wffs [sc. well-formed formulae] to produce a new wff. 1993 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 38 96 Each lexical entry is an n-tuple (where n is the number of relevant components). < adj.adv.1746 as lemmas |
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