Deny vs Nope - What's the difference?
deny | nope |
To not allow.
* 1847 , Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey Chapter XVI
To assert that something is not true.
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To disallow
to refuse to give or grant something to someone
* J. Edwards
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(sports) To prevent from scoring.
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* Bancroft
* Keble
(obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
* Shakespeare
(informal) No.
* 1856 , Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution ,
* 1880 , R. Foli, Ill weeds ,
* 1890 , Werner's Readings and Recitations , E.S. Werner,
* c1930 , Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, The Detroit Educational Bulletin , Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education,
* 2006 , Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land , AuthorHouse, ISBN: 1420895184,
(informal) A negative reply, no.
* 1981 , Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim'', read in ''Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror , Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN: 1582614288 (2001),
* 2002 , Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication Across Disciplines , John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN: 1556197543,
* 2005 , Suzanne Eggins, Diana Slade, Analysing Casual Conversation , Equinox Publishing Ltd, ISBN: 1845530462,
A bullfinch
* 1613 , Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion'', read in ''The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)],
* 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county , R. Hunter,
* 1836 , David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement ,
* 1882 , Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning , G. Bell and Sons,
(East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.
* 1823 , Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue , Francis Grose,
* 1829 , Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary , W. Pickering,
(East Midlands and Northern England) (archaic) To hit someone on the head.
* 1851 , Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom , Phillips, Sampson, & Co.,
* 1891 , T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings , A. D. Innes & co.,
As verbs the difference between deny and nope
is that deny is to not allow while nope is east Midlands and Northern England archaic To hit someone on the head.As an adverb nope is
no.As a noun nope is
a negative reply, no.deny
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied .
- 'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.
- I deny that I was at the party.
- Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
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- My father denied me a good education.
- To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
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- the falsehood of denying his opinion
- thou thrice denied , yet thrice beloved
- if you deny to dance
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
(assert something is not true) gainsay, contradict, withsayAntonyms
(not allow) allow (assert something is true) confirm, affirmDerived terms
* deniability * denierAnagrams
* * English reporting verbsnope
English
Etymology 1
Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.Adverb
(-)p. 97,
- "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope . The whistle ain't blowed yet."
p. 319,
- "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope ."
p. 50
- “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope . Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."
p. 13
- 1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope "...
p. 54,
- Nope . Don't know as I do.
Usage notes
The above usage has, since the 1850s, been far more common than any others.Antonyms
* yup * yep * yeahNoun
(en noun)- I'll take that as a nope, then.
p. 32
- By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes " from Earnhardt.
p. 19,
- Now 'Yeah,' 'Yep' and' Nope 'are always given as examples of what we do with 'Yes' and 'No' in English and it has become (particularly for foreigners) a sort of linguistic myth.
p. 97
- While Yeah'' occurs very frequently in casual talk, ''No'' and its conversational derivatives of ''nope , naw, nup, etc. are relatively infrequent.
See also
* yepEtymology 2
Probably mutated from ope (see 1823 quote) from alp;Noun
(en noun)p. 146,
- To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope , the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.
p. 255
- I may note that olp'', if pronounced ''ope'', as it sometimes is, may be the origin of ''nope'''''; ''an ope'', and ''a '''nope , differ as little as possible.
p. 380
- In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope , or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder , a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.
p. 583,
- Nope , an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).
Quotations
* (English Citations of "nope")Etymology 3
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.Noun
(en noun)p. xci
- (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.
p. 69,
- I'll fetch thee a nope .
Verb
p. 183,
- "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
p. 65
- The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"