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- interjection Alternative spelling of
nah .
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Examples
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It appears to have no name among Americans, but the Indians call it O-wai-a-nuh, which is manifestly a dialectic variation of a-wai'-a, the generic word for
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson
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If you took the world's greatest novel, changed the setting to modern-day Los Angeles, made the lead characters a hasbeen country singer and a painfully anonymous actor, removed all the fun, suspense and intrigue from it, replaced every word with the word 'nuh', painted the cover grey and threw it in a river where nobody could ever read it, it'd more or less be identical to this kerfuffle about LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian.
Hecklerspray 2009
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By the middle of 1978 I noticed that Alex [parrot] occasionally produced a "nuh" sound in situations where "no" would have been appropriate.
Disambiguation 2009
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Within a very few sessions, Alex replaced "nuh" with "no" in distress situations, such as not wanting to be handled.
Disambiguation 2009
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A lot of 'yeah, nuh, uh huh, what?' until he starts to open up.
Richard Karpala: Win Win Review and Filmmaker Interview Richard Karpala 2011
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A lot of 'yeah, nuh, uh huh, what?' until he starts to open up.
Richard Karpala: Win Win Review and Filmmaker Interview Richard Karpala 2011
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Whenever a spectacular Super Mario cake finds its way onto the nets, a confectionery artist like deviantART user Ana invariably has to be all, Oh, nuh-uh!
Pawns Are the First to Go… In My Gullet: Super Mario Bros. Chess Cake [Geeky Cake] 2010
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As he travels among Zambeef's 11 stores and plants, Mr. Swanepoel pronounced SWAH-nuh-pole spends several hours a day stuck in Lagos traffic jams.
Catering to New Tastes as Incomes Climb Will Connors 2011
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Just because the red players couldn't see clearly and were confused by the white movement, nuh, sorry, not an infringement by white.
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A lot of 'yeah, nuh, uh huh, what?' until he starts to open up.
Richard Karpala: Win Win Review and Filmmaker Interview Richard Karpala 2011
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