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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Not one: "Frequently, measures of major import . . . glide through these chambers with nary a whisper of debate” ( George B. Merry).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A corruption of ne'er a, never a (the article being sometimes erroneously repeated after the word in which it is contained).

Wiktionary

  1. adj. not one

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'

Etymologies

  1. Variant form of ne'er a. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of ne'er a. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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