nemminephr.
/ˈnɛmʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈnɛmaɪn/ Chiefly U.S. colloquial.
= never mind at mind v. 5b.
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1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xliii. 437 ‘Why, Jim?’ ‘Nemmine why, Huck—but he ain't comin' back no mo.’
1914 Dial. Notes 4 77 Nemmind!..Contraction of never mind!
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 323 ‘Look at the sun then.’ ‘Nemmine the sun too.’
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. ix. 241 ‘You better not do that. They might put you in jail.’ ‘Nemmine. I get all the baby things, that's all I'm worried about.’
1997 Nation 28 July 7/3 Come to think of it, none of the Bill of Rights applies to the states. Nemmine that the U.S. Supreme Court has been saying otherwise for, oh, fifty years now.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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