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nono

nono is the alternative spelling of no-no.

Meaning of no-no

Noun

no-no (plural no-nos or no-noes)

  1. (childish, colloquial, often) Something that is forbidden, prohibited, discouraged or taboo.
    • Smoking indoors is becoming a real no-no these days, in many places.
  2. (colloquial) A no-hitter; a game in which no batter on one of the teams got a hit.
    • He threw two no-nos in his career.

Forms of nono

pluralnonos

Questions about nono

What is nono the alternative spelling of?
Nono is the alternative spelling of no-no.

Words near nono in the dictionary

  1. nonnutrients
  2. nonnutritional
  3. nonnutritious
  4. nonnutritive
  5. nonny
  6. nono
  7. nonobedience
  8. nonobedient
  9. nonobese
  10. nonobesity
  11. nonobject

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nono (page history and authors); no-no (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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