no siree (bob)! excl.
(orig. US) an excl. of absolute denial.
![]() | Glance at N.Y. I ii: harry: Why, Mose, don’t you remember me? mose: No sir-ree, I don’t. | |
![]() | Life in the Far West (1849) 4: No sirre-e; I went out when Spiers lost his animals. | |
![]() | G’hals of N.Y. 67: ’Cause I aint one of them softies wot blow upon themselves. No sir-ree, horse! [Ibid.] 131: I haven’t forgot you – I haven’t. No, siree! | |
![]() | Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. n.p.: The judge, addressing the man, said: ‘Sir, are you drunk?’ The juror, straightening himself up, in a bold, defiant tone replied: ‘No Sir-ree, Bob!’. | |
![]() | Letters to Young People 141: But if you have a ‘sneakin’ notion’ for being a ‘regular brick,’ there is no other way [...] no sir-ree-hoss? | |
![]() | Liverpool Mercury 24 Sept. 6/7: The reply was ‘No, siree Bob!’. | |
![]() | Seven Years of a Sailor’s Life 259: Do you think I’d lug a load on my back like a mule? No sir-ee. | |
![]() | My Time 379: I wouldn’t have him back; no siree, not on no account! | |
![]() | Camps in the Rockies 94: Now that won’t wash, Sireebob; you ain’t clever enough for that. | |
![]() | (con. c.1840) Huckleberry Finn 269: No-sirree-bob, they ain’t no trouble ’bout that speculation, you bet you. | |
![]() | Akron Beacon Jrnl (OH) 17 Jan. 8/5: ‘No siree, he ain’t no burglar’s accomplice’. | |
![]() | Whitstable Times 30 Nov. 6/4: ‘No, siree, Bob!’ yelled the crowd. | |
![]() | Magnetic North 169: No Siree! The Jesuits go the whole hog! | |
![]() | DN III:vii 546: no-sirree-bob-tailed-rooster, interj. Used in emphatic denial. | ‘A Second Word-List From Nebraska’ in|
![]() | Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 111: No, siree! not by a long sight! | ‘The Ballad of Soulful Sam’ in|
![]() | A Hasty Bunch 77: No siree, I’m going swimming. | ‘The Baby of the Family’ in|
![]() | 🎵 You don’t have to have a hanker / To be a broker or a banker; / No, sirree, just live to be / My mother’s son-in-law! | ‘Your Mother’s Son-In-Law’|
![]() | Tamworth Herald 20 May 6: The long and short of it was, these chaps couldn’t do it [...] ‘No siree Bob!’. | |
![]() | Sudden Takes the Trail 76: No, sirree, I’m aimin’ to even up with this place. | |
![]() | letter 28 June in Charters I (1995) 207: No siree-bone! | |
![]() | Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 112: Ain’t been deflowered yet, either, have you honey? No sir ee. | |
![]() | Burnt Ones 71: I was never cut out for any sort of academic wife. No sirree! | |
![]() | Tenants (1972) 31: No siree, man. That stays with papa. | |
![]() | Public Burning (1979) 415: It ain’t over yet! Nosirree, bob. | |
![]() | Snow Crash (1993) 312: Nothing in the world like it, nosireebob. | |
![]() | Indep. Traveller 9 Oct. 1: The other insisted he did not think of it as a job, no sirree, he was helping to make people’s dream come true. | |
![]() | Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 16 June 30/3: You can be darn sure Curt ain’t gettin’ a single one of ’em. Nosiree Bob. | |
![]() | Seven Demons 265: No sireebob. That is a big fat no-no. |