nevermind

Attention, heed.

Noun

  1. Attention, heed.
    • Hell, they've got groundrules and guidelines comin' out the kazoo, but do they pay any nevermind to 'em? - 2002, William Walling, It's Too Late to Leave Early:
  2. Concern, affair.
    • "... buy what he wants. It's none of your nevermind." - 1949, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West, page 22:
    • "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." - 2008, Gary Franklin, Blood at Bear Lake,...
  3. Consequence; significant change in or effect on a situation or state; difference.
    • 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. - 1926, Lester Cohen, Sweepings, page 306:
    • Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand. - 1997, Annie Jones, Irish Eyes, →ISBN, page 211:
    • So it don't make a heap of nevermind to me which one you choose! - 2002, Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie, Pineapple Press, →ISBN, page 248:

Origin

From never + mind (in never mind).

Forms

neverminds

Verb

  1. To ignore.
    • Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight. - 1989, William Mills, The Arkansas: An American River, page 159:
    • "Ya, that's a good idea, neverminding. Let's nevermind, huh?" - 2002, Chris Lynch, Freewill, page 28:
  2. Alternative spelling of never mind.
    • 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. - 2003, Nina Revoyr, Southland, page 280:
    • Nevermind where the eggs & sperm came from. Nevermind how it is that all these planets & stars came from nothing. - 2005, Alexander T. Newport, The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good), page 399:

Forms

neverminds neverminding neverminded