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zilch
zilch Z0015600 (zĭlch) Slang n.1. Zero; nothing.2. A person regarded as being insignificant; a nonentity.adj. Amounting to nothing; nil: "Business was zilch" (New York).
[Perhaps from alteration of z(ero) + (n)il.]zilch (zɪltʃ) n1. nothing2. (General Sporting Terms) sport US and Canadian nil[C20: of uncertain origin]zilch (zɪltʃ)
n. Slang. zero; nothing. [1965–70, Amer.] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  zilch - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipherrelative quantity - a quantity relative to some purposenihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet" |
zilchnoun1. Slang. No thing; not anything:nil, nothing, null.Informal: zero.Slang: nix.Archaic: aught.2. Slang. A totally insignificant person:cipher, nebbish, nobody, nonentity, nothing.Informal: pip-squeak, zero.Slang: shrimp.Translationszilch
John DoeA man whose identity is unknown or being protected, as in legal proceedings. The victim is a John Doe—the paramedics didn't find any identification on him. The case was brought by a John Doe, so we don't know the true identity of the man suing us.See also: doe, johnzilch1. slang Nothing. We spent all weekend working on it and now we have zilch to show for it. You know what I got in return? Zilch. Nada. Nothing.2. slang Someone insignificant; a nobody. I feel like such a zilch after missing out on that job.John Doe1. Also, John Q. Public; Joe Blow; Joe Doakes; Joe Zilch. An average undistinguished man; also, the average citizen. For example, This television show is just right for a John Doe, or It's up to John Q. Public to go to the polls and vote. Originally used from the 13th century on legal documents as an alias to protect a witness, John Doe acquired the sense of "ordinary person" in the 1800s. The variants date from the 1900s. Also see Joe six-pack. 2. Also, Jane Doe. An unknown individual, as in The police found a John Doe lying on the street last night, or The judge issued a warrant for the arrest of the perpetrators, Jane Doe no. 1 and Jane Doe no. 2 . [Second half of 1900s] See also: doe, johnJohn Doe and Jane Doe (ˈdʒɑn ˈdo) n. a name used for a person whose real name is unknown. The tag on the corpse said Jane Doe, since no one had identified her. John Doe was the name at the bottom of the check. See also: doe, johnzilch (zɪltʃ) n. nothing. And what do I get? Zilch, that’s what! John DoeThe average person. This appellation actually dates from the thirteenth century, when it was used in legal documents to disguise the identity of witnesses; the tenant plaintiff was called John Doe and the landlord defendant Richard Roe. In the nineteenth century the name acquired the present meaning of ordinary person. A book, The O’Hara Family (1825), included “Tales, Containing . . . John Doe,” and almost a century later a movie starring Gary Cooper was entitled Meet John Doe (1941). Similar appellations include Joe Blow, first recorded in 1867; Joe Doakes, from the 1920s; and John Q. Public, coined by the writer William Allen White in 1937. John Doe has outlived them all.See also: doe, johnZILCH
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zilch
Synonyms for zilchnoun no thing; not anythingSynonyms- nil
- nothing
- null
- zero
- nix
- aught
noun a totally insignificant personSynonyms- cipher
- nebbish
- nobody
- nonentity
- nothing
- pip-squeak
- zero
- shrimp
Synonyms for zilchnoun a quantity of no importanceSynonyms- goose egg
- nada
- naught
- nil
- nix
- nothing
- null
- zero
- zip
- zippo
- aught
- cypher
- cipher
Related Words- relative quantity
- nihil
- bugger all
- Fanny Adams
- fuck all
- sweet Fanny Adams
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