nevermind

See also: never mind

English

Etymology

From never +‎ mind (in never mind).

Noun

nevermind (plural neverminds)

1. (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?

2. (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."

3. (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)

1. (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?"

2. (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.