Nevermind

Origin

From never + mind (in never mind).

Full definition of nevermind

Noun

1. (US regional) Attention, heed.
• 2002, William Walling, It's Too Late to Leave Early‎, Hell, they've got groundrules and guidelines comin' out the kazoo, but do they pay any nevermind to 'em?
2. (US regional) Concern, affair.
• 1949, w, w:The Way West, "... buy what he wants. It's none of your nevermind."
• 2008, Gary Franklin, Blood at Bear Lake‎, "These is my brothers, Tom and Benjamin. We's from Missoura. Would you be Yankee or Secesh?"
  "Neither one," Joe said. "Not that it's any nevermind o' yours, Mr. Wickersham."
3. (US regional) Consequence; significant change in or effect on a situation or state; difference.
• 1926, Lester Cohen, Sweepings, Let 'em say she was his mistress, that she was a witch. Wasn't true, but it didn't make any nevermind if they thought it was. Nice woman, quiet, could tell the cards.
• 1997, Annie Jones, Irish Eyes, ISBN 1576731081, page 211 http://google.com/books?id=91Z18yPCRm4C&q=nevermind&dq=nevermind:Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand.
• 2002, Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie, Pineapple Press, ISBN 1561642576, page 248 http://google.com/books?id=EPQWl5a-O9EC&pg=PA248&dq=nevermind:So it don't make a heap of nevermind to me which one you choose!
• 2005, Larry Jay Martin, O'Rourke's Revenge‎, If'n it makes any nevermind, you'll be grubbin' alongside me.

Verb

1. (US regional) To ignore.
• 1989, William Mills, The Arkansas: An American River, page 159Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight.
• 2002, Chris Lynch, Freewill, page 28"Ya, that's a good idea, neverminding. Let's nevermind, huh?"
• 2003, Nina Revoyr, ''Southland - Page 280Nevermind that she didn't know him, or that he was Japanese. Nevermind that she saw herself as always alone, despite the many people in her life.
• 2005, Alexander T. Newport, The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good), page 399Nevermind where the eggs & sperm came from. Nevermind how it is that all these planets & stars came from nothing. Nevermind where ….
2. Misspelling of never mind