gnaw
Example Sentences
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“This is actually a really good bush. I could bush-camp. But naw, that’s what noobs do.”
From The New Yorker • May 14, 2018
He was like, “Naw, naw, because it’s about the father, and the son, and they have this rift.”
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2018
“But, naw, I’m lucky, man. I’m just glad everybody is OK.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2016
Except it's now Friday morning and the result is not aye but naw.
From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2014
Cudn Hope said naw, that happened around 1882.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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