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nae

 (nā)
adv. Scots
1. No.
2. Not.
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nae

(neɪ) or

na

determiner
a Scot word for no1, not
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nae

(neɪ)
Scot. and North Eng. adv.
1. no; not.
adj.
2. no.
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"Hoot, hoot, hoot," said the barber, "nae kind of a man, nae kind of a man at all;" and began to ask me very shrewdly what my business was; but I was more than a match for him at that, and he went on to his next customer no wiser than he came.
There's nae such thing as a newspaper ever darkens my doors.
yer good leddy's joost in the bedchamber, nae doot!"
I always remember what old William MacAllister said of her at her funeral, `There's nae doot she was a Chreestian wumman, but she had the de'il's own temper.'"
"Then I'll just tak' my depairture," replies the other, "for I'm nae gude here!" With which remark he finishes his brief attendance and returns to finish his dinner.
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