Meaning
Nothing — the most compressed pronunciation of 'nothing', collapsing 'nutten' all the way down to a single tight syllable, 'nuh'n'. It sits at the tight end of a range that runs from 'nothing' to 'nutten' to 'nuh'n', each more worn down than the last. 'Mi nuh have nuh'n' means I don't have anything, the double negative being normal and correct in Patois. It is the everyday word for the plain absence of anything at all, in its most clipped, rapid-fire spoken form.
Examples
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Nuh'n nah gwaan.
Nothing's happening.
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Mi seh nuh'n to dem.
I said nothing to them.
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It nuh cost mi nuh'n.
It didn't cost me anything.
Origin
A maximally compressed pronunciation of 'nothing' → 'nutten' → 'nuh'n'. Shows Patois vowel-and-consonant reduction.
How it’s used
The tightest pronunciation of 'nothing'; same as 'nutten'. Double negatives are standard ('nuh have nuh'n'). See [[nutten]].