Not at all.
1833. They don’t raise such humans in the old dominion, no how.—James Hall, ‘The Harpe’s Head,’ p. 91 (Phila.).
1833. This aint no part of a priming, to places that I’ve seed afore, no how.—The same, ‘Legends of the West,’ p. 191. [For fuller quotation see PRIMING.]
1836. He was lawyer enough, he said, to know that every offence should be tried on the spot where it was committed; and if he had stolen the pennies from his grandmother’s eyes in Louisiana, the people in Texas would have nothing to do with that affair, nohow they could fix it.—‘Col. Crockett in Texas,’ p. 125 (Phila.).
1843. I doesn’t know a single letter in the A B C’s, and couldn’t read a chapter in the Bible no how you could fix it, bless the Lord!—I jist preach like old Peter and Poll, by the Sperit.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 141.
1844. Would you be so kind as to accommodate a stranger with a bowl of bread and milk?—Well, I allow I couldn’t, no how you can fix it.—Yale Lit. Mag., ix. 264 (April).
1845. This child aint to be beat, no how you can fix it!—W. T. Thompson, ‘Chronicles of Pineville,’ p. 23 (Phila.).
1846. He’d never sell cheese by that rule any more, and he didn’t believe it was a good rule to sell by, no way it could be fixed.—Mr. McHenry of Kentucky, House of Repr., June 30: Cong. Globe, p. 1016, App.
1848. This child don’t meddle with no more hard ware in this trap, no how!—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects,’ p. 104.
1851. I have been brought up that way, and it can’t be whipped out of me nohow.—Mr. Cartter of Ohio, House of Repr., Feb. 25: Cong. Globe, p. 684.
1853. They [the skippers] swear they’ll never stan’ that straight line “from headland to headland,” no way you can fix it.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 408 (1860).
1854. Look a-here, Kurnel, you can sock along arter that b’ar jist as long as you ’ve a mind tu, and here ’s my six-shooter, but you can’t toll me up thar, nohow!—Knick. Mag., xliii. 643 (June).
[1856. A baby is a “crying evil” the best way you can fix it.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxii. 124 (Dec.). See also ODDS, ASK NO.]
