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nary

[ nair-ee ]

adjective

, Older Use.
  1. not any; no; never a:

    nary a sound.



nary

/ ˈnɛərɪ /

adverb

  1. dialect.
    not; never

    nary a man was left

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nary1

First recorded in 1740–50; variant of ne'er a never a
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nary1

C19: variant of ne'er a never a
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Example Sentences

While other celebrities cloistered on Long Island, posting nary a selfie, Cooper celebrated the Fourth of July at the vacation hotspot by documenting every bar hop and hangover on social media.

From Time

The hot tubs remain closed for covid restrictions, but otherwise business is back with nary a shrug — with a healthy dose of sanitizing and disinfecting.

The aroma of fresh coffee perfumes the air as clusters of workers huddle in the lobby, with nary a face mask in sight.

From Quartz

With the pressing need to keep citizens up-to-date, most authorities rely on simple text messages to just tell everyone in, say, an entire county to evacuate, with nary more detail.

If you search through the SEC database for “DoorDash Inc,” you will find nary a Form D filing for any of the company’s 11 venture rounds that Crunchbase identifies.

Venetians sip their coffee in quiet squares and walk their dogs along the waterfront with nary a tourist in sight.

I remember my early years as full of excitement, friends, and adventure, nary an iron bar in sight.

Marshall himself would have nary a cross word for Dixie of course.

This, of course, contradicted years of NFL statements, and there has been nary a peep since.

It is, in short, the same old dog-eared Republican playbook with nary an acknowledgement that Obama just won reelection.

But this mornin' I got a chance to size up the whole bunch, and nary one uh them jaspers I wanted t' see was in sight.

He started out as a mere or'nary politician, but the Democratic Boss took him up and his ambitions are growing.

I ain't kickin', you understand, nary bit; but onct in a dog's age I kind of hankers fer a decent look from one of 'em.

They want to run away from their master, but they hain't nary idee whar to go when they run away.

I sees yu a flinging de whoop now, but taint ober nary wun ob ole Mars Jon's mules, dat it taint.

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