nevermind

See also: never mind

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.
- 1949, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West‎^[1], page 22:
  "... buy what he wants. It's none of your nevermind."
- 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^[2], 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^[3], →ISBN, page 211:
  Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand.
- 2002, Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie‎^[4], 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

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nevermind.

Translations

concern, affair

Finnish: asia (fi)
Russian: де́ло (ru) n (délo), забо́та (ru) f (zabóta), пробле́ма (ru) f (probléma)

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.