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Definition of Never-never

1. Noun. Installment plan. "We bought a car on the never-never"

2. Noun. The remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Never-never

Neusser's granules Neustadt Neustria Neutral Zone Neuville-lès-Lœuilly Nev. Neva Neva River Nevada Nevada gas

Nevadan Nevadans Nevado de Colima Nevaeh Nevelson Never-Never Nevi'im Nevil Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway

Neville Neville Chamberlain Nevis Nevisian New New-Agey New-York New Age New Age music New Age traveller

Literary usage of Never-never

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"Never, never could I have believed,' she murmured to herself, ' that one could be so happy.' Her face lighted up with a smile; but at the same moment she ..."

2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"NEVER. NEVER- (or -NARE)-A- FACE-BUT-HIS-OWN, phr. (old). —See quot. ... want to die and go with him to the never-never COUNTRY parson tells us about up ..."

3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, They never, never can divide The Cotter's .... The fancy may delight, But never, never can come near the heart. ..."

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