Nose vs Nope - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between nose and nope

is that nose is a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell while nope is (archaic) [http://wwwmultimapcom/map/browsecgi?client=public&x=-787500040765448&y=503500097286449&width=700&height=400&gride=-787252440765448&gridn=503740197286449&srec=0&coordsys=mercator&db=us&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=chilmark&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=200000&outx=6&outy=9 martha's vineyard].

As a verb nose

is to move cautiously.

nose

English

(wikipedia nose)

Noun

(en noun)

A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

A snout, the nose of an animal.

The tip of an object.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.

(horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.

The power of smelling.

* Collier

We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.

Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.

The skill in recognising bouquet.

(by extension) Skill at finding information.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* aquiline nose * bignose * bloody nose * blow one's nose * bottlenose * button nose * cut off one's nose to spite one's face * e-nose * * get up someone's nose * hawknose * in front of one's nose * I've got your nose * keep one's nose clean * look down one's nose * nasal * no skin off one's nose * nose candy * nose cap * nose cone * nose count * nose flute * nose job * nose out of joint * nose pad * nose-pick * nose poke * nose ring * nose test * nose to tail * nose to the grindstone * nosebag * noseband * nosebleed * nosed * nosedive * noseful * noseguard * noseless * noselike * nosepiece * noseplug * nosering * noseshot * noseweight * nosewheel * on the nose * parson's nose * pay through the nose * pick one's nose * plain as the nose on one's face * pope's nose * powder one's nose * pug nose * Red Nose Day * Roman nose * runny nose * snub-nose * socked on the nose * stick one's nose into * the nose knows * thumb one's nose * turn up one's nose * under one's nose * wax-nose * white nose syndrome

Verb

(nos)

To move cautiously.

The ship nosed through the minefield.

To snoop.

She was nosing around other people’s business.

To detect by smell or as if by smell.

* , Hamlet , act 4, sc. 3,

If you find him not within

this month, you shall nose him as you go up the

stairs into the lobby.

To push with one's nose.

* Tennyson

lambs nosing the mother's udder

To nuzzle.

To win by a narrow margin.

To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.

to nose a prayer

(Cowley)

Derived terms

* brown-nose * nosey * nose out

Anagrams

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nope

English

Etymology 1

Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.

Adverb

(-)

(informal) No.

* 1856 , Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution , p. 97,

"Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope . The whistle ain't blowed yet."

* 1880 , R. Foli, Ill weeds , p. 319,

"No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope ."

* 1890 , Werner's Readings and Recitations , E.S. Werner, 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."

* c1930 , Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, The Detroit Educational Bulletin , Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, 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 "...

* 2006 , Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land , AuthorHouse, ISBN: 1420895184, 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 * yeah

Noun

(en noun)

(informal) A negative reply, no.

I'll take that as a nope, then.

* 1981 , Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim'', read in ''Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror , Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN: 1582614288 (2001), 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.

* 2002 , Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication Across Disciplines , John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN: 1556197543, 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.

* 2005 , Suzanne Eggins, Diana Slade, Analysing Casual Conversation , Equinox Publishing Ltd, ISBN: 1845530462, p. 97

While Yeah'' occurs very frequently in casual talk, ''No'' and its conversational derivatives of ''nope , naw, nup, etc. are relatively infrequent.

Etymology 2

Probably mutated from ope (see 1823 quote) from alp;

Noun

(en noun)

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)], 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.

* 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county , R. Hunter, 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.

* 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 , 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.

* 1882 , Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning , G. Bell and Sons, 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)

(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, 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.

* 1829 , Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary , W. Pickering, p. 69,

I'll fetch thee a nope .

Verb

(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., p. 183,

"Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.

* 1891 , T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings , A. D. Innes & co., 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?"

Anagrams

* open * peon * pone ----