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say it: NER-ee
nary is an adjective meaning "(used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'". It is pronounced /ˈnɛɹi/ — NER-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
(used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'
“heard nary a sound”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.