Crossword clues for dunno
dunno
- "Haven't the foggiest"
- "I'm stumped!"
- "I haven't the foggiest"
- "Beats me," slangily
- Shrugger's word
- Shrugger's comment
- "I'm at a loss"
- "Can't answer that"
- Steely Dan, e.g
- "Search me!"
- 'Search me'
- Slangy "Beats me!"
- It may be said with a shrug
- Comment expressed online as ¯\_(''/)_/¯
- Am clueless, informally
- "Ain't got a clue!"
- 'Ain't got a clue'
- "Beats me!"
- "Got me!"
- "No clue"
- Slangy expression of ignorance
- Verbal equivalent of a shrug
- "Beats me"
- Sorry, I can't help you up on horse first
- Search me flipping naked, but find no drugs? Not likely!
- No idea
- I've no idea!
- I'm in the dark brown number
- I don't know (informal)
- Haven't a clue! (informal)
- "I give up!"
- "No idea"
- "Search me"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colloquial for "(I) don't know," first attested 1842 in American English.
Wiktionary
contraction (eye dialect of do not know nodot=1 English); (eye dialect of does not know nocap=1 English) n. An utterance of the word ''dunno#Contraction''.
Wikipedia
Dunno, or Know-Nothing (, Neznayka that is Don'tknowka (ka - the Russian suffix here for drawing up the whole name in a cheerful form); from the Russian phrase "" ("ne znayu"), I don't know) is a hero created by Soviet children's writer Nikolay Nosov.
Dunno, recognized by his bright blue hat, canary-yellow trousers, orange shirt, and green tie, is the title character of Nosov's world-famous trilogy, The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends (1954), Dunno in Sun City (1958), and Dunno on the Moon (1966). There have been several movie adaptations of the books.
Usage examples of "dunno".
I dunno what for, but anyways he had it under his pillow alongside his ol' Colt.
I dunno what the idee is, but these Tomahawk polecats has double-crossed somebody!
The original inhabitants, the Marena Dimura, are a people related to those of the south coastal kingdoms of Libiannin, Cardine, Hellin, Daimiel, and Dunno Scuttari.
Urquhart is very partial to a casseroled chicken, he says as there’s more flavour to ’em that way, and I dunno but what he’s right.
This bunch of crims from down south want to take over the waterfront up here, but someone's organizing 'em and we dunno who.
I know what I know, and I know we had it all arranged, and you should stick up for your holders, not these weyrfolk and all their queer customs and doings, and I dunno what'll happen to my daughter.
Dunno why you'd want to talk to that meringue-head, but it's your buffalo nickel.
Half a dozen families has their cabins within a mile of each other, and I dunno what in hell they want to crowd up together that way for, it would plumb smother me, but pap says they was always peculiar that way.
I dunno how the others do it, kill and not get the flatties down on 'em .
We've had this ken in our eye I dunno how long, but that Fyton he was a cunning one!
If it's not Daytona Beach it's Lake Havasu, and if it's not Lake Havasu, it's, I dunno -somewhere on Long Island.
I dunno how long after the night I just told you about this would have been, but I know it was after because I remember layin there with my kidneys throbbin and thinkin I'd get up pretty soon and take some aspirin to quiet them down.
Bill packed it home, though I dunno what he aimed to do with it, because all the houses in the Humbolts was log cabins which nobody ever painted, or if they did, they just white-washed ‘.
He hands me the cold-boiled stare and yaps, 'I dunno, friend, I'll see,' and he ducks behind the rigamajig they keep track of the rooms on.