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dialect
: not any : not one
I must have it back as I have nary other copy Flannery O'Connor
Phrases
nary a or nary an
: not a single
survived the accident with nary a scratch

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Nary, most often used in the phrase "nary a" to mean "not a single," is an 18th-century alteration of the adjectival phrase "ne'er a," in which ne'er is a contraction of never. That contraction dates to the 13th century, and the word it abbreviates is even older: never can be traced back to Old English nǣfre, a combination of ne ("not" or "no") and ǣfre ("ever"). Old English ne also combined with ā ("always") to give us , the Old English ancestor of our no. Ā, from the Latin aevum ("age" or "lifetime") and Greek aiōn ("age"), is related to the English adverb aye, meaning "always, continually, or ever." This aye (pronounced to rhyme with say) is unrelated to the more familiar aye (pronounced to rhyme with sigh) used as a synonym of yes.

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web There’s never any sense of genuine strife between Gabe and Natalie that doesn’t involve their romantic relationship and there’s nary any hardship (financial or whatnot) shown between them raising their small child. Courtney Howard, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022 Currently nary were African-Americans, 3.4% were Hispanic, and 2.4% were East or South Asian. Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, 31 May 2022 This is a play that hurls a lot of biographical information at the audience, but Reiter's diction and delivery are impeccable and nary a word is lost. Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2022 The very lawmakers who originally seemed the most likely to bolt over bad news had spent the hours leading up to the big reveal offering The New Republic’s Grace Segers nary a discouraging word. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2021 There's nary a raindrop in Monsoon, director Hong Khaou's gorgeous second feature; all the weather is internal. Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2020 With nary a mask in sight, protesters called Newsom a tyrant and showed their support for President Trump, evidenced by Trump 2020 gear everywhere, including for sale. Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020 Few team players had ever became as rock-star, movie-star famous and with nary a scandal the way Jordan had — almost exclusively through athletic supremacy. Wesley Morris, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020 There wasn’t a nary a man, there wasn’t a — there wasn’t a mine a running a lump of coal or running no work. New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

alteration of ne'er a

First Known Use

1746, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of nary was in 1746

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