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no body

no body pronoun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, body. Also the obsolete form of nobody.

Pronoun

no body

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, body.
    • There is no stamen in his wisdom. It is all head and no body—like the pictures of the goddess Laverna—or at least all head and shoulders, like a codfish.1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4...
    • He is, after all, having no body left to speak of and confined indoors, now all brain, a manipulator, an outsmarter. His paralysis requires Bernard’s virility; […]2003, Jack Shadoian, “Toward the 21st Century: Frenzies and Despairs”, in Dreams & Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 301

Also used as

no body is also the obsolete form of nobody.

Questions about no body

What does no body mean?
No body means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, body.
What part of speech is no body?
No body is a pronoun.

Words near no body in the dictionary

  1. no big deal
  2. no big whoop
  3. no big woop
  4. no biggie
  5. no bigs
  6. no body
  7. no body, no crime
  8. no bones about it
  9. no borax, no glue
  10. no brainer
  11. no brainers

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