English

Noun

nevermind ‎(plural neverminds)

1. (US regional) Attention, heed.
   • 2002, William Walling, It's Too Late to Leave Early‎:

     ****, 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, 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, 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, ISBN 1576731081, page 211 :

     Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand.

   • 2002, Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie, Pineapple Press, ISBN 1561642576, 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:nevermind.

Translations

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?"

   • 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. Nevermind where […].

2. Misspelling of never mind.