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no end

no end adverb: exceedingly; endlessly.

Adverb

no end (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Exceedingly; endlessly.
    • Oh! so that's why Mary called you back, and you didn't come to supper. You lost something—that beef and pickles was no end good.1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School-days, page 9
    • I spoke like that because I—even I, who had been no end kind to him—even I remembered—remembered—against him—what—what had happened.1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXIII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 252

Noun

no end

  1. A great amount.
    • I've had no end of trouble getting her to agree.
    • He has no end of supplies, no end of cooks and waiters, no end of table furniture and decorations, no end of handsome dining rooms, yet he frequently lives on the crumbs that fall from the table.1898 January-June, “MEAT AND DRINK IN GOTHAM”, in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MONTHLY JOURNAL, volume XXVI, translation of New York Herald, page 177

Words formed from no end

Questions about no end

What does no end mean?
No end means exceedingly; endlessly.
What part of speech is no end?
No end can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near no end in the dictionary

  1. no doi
  2. no doubt
  3. no duck, no dinner
  4. no duff
  5. no duh
  6. no end
  7. no entry
  8. no excrement, Sherlock
  9. no eye see
  10. no fair
  11. no fairsies

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