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English
Etymology
From never + mind (in never mind).
Noun
nevermind (plural neverminds)
- (US regional) Attention, heed.
2002, William Walling, It's Too Late to Leave Early:Hell, they've got groundrules and guidelines comin' out the kazoo, but do they pay any nevermind to 'em?
- (US regional) Concern, affair.
2008, Gary Franklin, Blood at Bear Lake, page 76:"These is my brothers, Tom and Benjamin. We's from Missoura. Would you be Yankee or Secesh?" / "Neither one," Joe said. "Not that it's any nevermind o' yours, Mr. Wickersham."
- (US regional) Consequence; significant change in or effect on a situation or state; difference.
1926, Lester Cohen, Sweepings, page 306:Let 'em say she was his mistress, that she was a witch. Wasn't true, but it didn't make any nevermind if they thought it was. Nice woman, quiet, could tell the cards.
1997, Annie Jones, Irish Eyes, →ISBN, page 211:Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand.
2002, Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie, Pineapple Press, →ISBN, page 248:So it don't make a heap of nevermind to me which one you choose!
2005, Larry Jay Martin, O'Rourke's Revenge, page 21:If'n it makes any nevermind, you'll be grubbin' alongside me.
Quotations
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Translations
Verb
nevermind (third-person singular simple present neverminds, present participle neverminding, simple past and past participle neverminded)
- (US regional) To ignore.
1989, William Mills, The Arkansas: An American River, page 159:Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight.
2002, Chris Lynch, Freewill, page 28:"Ya, that's a good idea, neverminding. Let's nevermind, huh?"
- (colloquial) Misspelling of never mind.
2003, Nina Revoyr, Southland, page 280:Nevermind that she didn't know him, or that he was Japanese. Nevermind that she saw herself as always alone, despite the many people in her life.
2005, Alexander T. Newport, The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good), page 399:Nevermind where the eggs & sperm came from. Nevermind how it is that all these planets & stars came from nothing.