Meaning & use
Nae
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No; not (used in Scots and Scottish English).
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"I'll nae be going out in this weather," he grumbled.
She said she had nae idea where the keys had gone.
A note on using this word
A staple of Scots dialect, appearing in everything from Robert Burns's poetry to modern Scottish speech and writing.
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