Fromnever +mind (innever mind).
nevermind (pluralneverminds)
- (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 anynevermind to 'em?
- (US regional) Concern, affair.
2008, Gary Franklin,Blood at Bear Lake, page76:"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 anynevermind o' yours, Mr. Wickersham."
- (US regional)Consequence; significant change in or effect on a situation or state;difference.
1926, Lester Cohen,Sweepings[2], page306:Let 'em say she was his mistress, that she was a witch. Wasn't true, but it didn't make anynevermind if they thought it was. Nice woman, quiet, could tell the cards.
1997, Annie Jones,Irish Eyes[3],→ISBN, page211:Either way—doesn't mean nonevermind to me, you understand.
2002, Lee Gramling,Ninety-Mile Prairie[4], Pineapple Press,→ISBN, page248:So it don't make a heap ofnevermind to me which one you choose!
2005, Larry Jay Martin,O'Rourke's Revenge, page21:If'n it makes anynevermind, you'll be grubbin' alongside me.
For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:nevermind.
nevermind (third-person singular simple presentneverminds,present participleneverminding,simple past and past participleneverminded)
- (US regional) Toignore.
1989, William Mills,The Arkansas: An American River, page159: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, page28:"Ya, that's a good idea,neverminding. Let'snevermind, huh?"
- (colloquial)Misspelling ofnever mind.
2003, Nina Revoyr,Southland, page280: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), page399:Nevermind where the eggs & sperm came from.Nevermind how it is that all these planets & stars came from nothing.
