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Definition of No-count
1. Adjective. Without merit. "The car was a no-good piece of junk"
Similar to: Worthless
Derivative terms: Good-for-naught, Good-for-nothing, Sorriness
Definition of No-count
1. Adjective. (idiomatic slang US) Of no value. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of No-count
Literary usage of No-count
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1853 Yes, Massa, dem no 'count calves done fool me again.— Paxton, ' A Stray
Yankee in Texas,' p. 282. 1866 It was a long, one-storied, log building, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... with the nine quadrats, when no nicks appear uppermost in the quadrats thrown;
hence no count. (London slang), a young sodomite. ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"The word, however, is not in the proper position either relative or absolute and
hence can receive no count at all. Words of this kind receive a score of 2 ..."
4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1892)
"With regard to the other point, there is no count in this declaration for a loss
by barratry. Postea to the defendant. KB TRINITY TERM. ..."
5. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
"... wa'n't no 'count 'fo' de war, en dey wa'n't no 'count ... en dey ain't no 'count ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"NH No count [noa kount], sb. no account, of no value ; not worth anything. ...
That chap be'aut no count ' = Ho is a worthless fellow. ..."
7. Questions and Answers on Law: Alphabetically Arranged. With References to by Asa Kinne (1852)
"... prisoner guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter, either voluntary or
involuntary, and the verdict will be legal, although there is no count for ..."
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