nooit, adverb

/nɔɪt//nuɪt/
Origin:
Afrikaans.
slang
The emphatic ‘no’; ‘never’. Also as interjection.
1970 S. Maclennan Informant, Pietersburg (now Polokwane)Are you going home? Nooit!
1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies (1977) 40‘Aren’t you staying tonight?’ ‘Nooit nie! — never! I’m pulling out as you’re on your way ashore.’
1979 M. Anderson in Sunday Times 21 Oct. (Mag. Sect.) 1Nosh is food, graze, chow. For real emphasis you now say nooit instead of ‘no’.
1989 Informant, Umtata (now Mthatha, Eastern Cape)The other day I was standing at the bar and this guy comes along and says ‘Can I have three crates of beer?’ And I thought ‘Nooit, this can’t be true!’, but the barman just said ‘Ja, sure’ and puts three crates on the counter.
1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 157‘Why did you come here tonight..? To find someone to pick on?’ ‘Nooit! I wouldn’t even try with this bunch of Uncle Toms.’
1990 Frontline Mar.–Apr. 13He finds I am from Johannesburg and pronounces: ‘Well you can do what you want up there, but here apartheid is never going to end, nooit.’
1991 C. Broster Informant, Cape Town, Western CapeNooit. Interjection. Not a chance, I refuse, I disagree completely. He says we must learn for a test tomorrow! Nooit!
1991 M. Kantey All Tickets 76His ambition was..to play sax for real...Nooit, my bra. This is the big time I’m talking about, man, nè?
The emphatic ‘no’; ‘never’. Also as interjection.
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