Etymology

From no +‎ howCategory:English compound terms#NOHOW.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: know-howCategory:English terms with homophones#NOHOW

Adverb

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1. (nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#NOHOW, African-American VernacularCategory:African-American Vernacular English#NOHOW) In no way; not at all; by no available means.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter V, in Treasure Island:

     "We don't see it here nohow," returned the man.

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   • 1890, Joseph Jacobs, “The Well of the World’s End”, in English Fairy Tales, page 216:

     “Oh, dear, oh dear,” she said, “my stepmother has sent me all this long way to fill this sieve with water from the Well of the World’s End, and I can’t fill it no how at all.”

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   • 1950 June 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo:

     Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent.

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   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 73:

     "You'd start bidding before you knew what you was doing. I won't permit it nohow."

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   • 1953, James Baldwin, “Elizabeth’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 167:

     And his face clouded. “I don't know. I got to find out. Looks like I can't get my mind straight nohow.”

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References

• Major, Clarence (1994), Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang, Puffin Books, →ISBN

Anagrams

• how no