no end meaning (informal): definition, quotations

no end

adv

Informal Exceedingly; endlessly.

Oh! so that's why Mary called you back, and you didn't come to supper. You lost something—that beef and pickles was no end good.1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School-days, page 9:
I spoke like that because I—even I, who had been no end kind to him—even I remembered—remembered—against him—what—what had happened.1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXIII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 252:

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There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, Howards End:

noun

A great amount.

I've had no end of trouble getting her to agree.
He has no end of supplies, no end of cooks and waiters, no end of table furniture and decorations, no end of handsome dining rooms, yet he frequently lives on the crumbs that fall from the table.1898 January-June, “MEAT AND DRINK IN GOTHAM”, in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MONTHLY JOURNAL, volume XXVI, translation of New York Herald, page 177:

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In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 46:

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