Zilch Definition

zĭlch
noun
Nothing or zero.
Webster's New World
A person regarded as being insignificant; a nonentity.
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Synonyms:
adjective
Amounting to nothing; nil.
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Origin of Zilch

  • Related to creative origin of Mr. Zilch in Ballyhoo, 1930s humor magazine.

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps from alteration of z(ero) (n)il

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Zilch Sentence Examples

  • The guys in suits have gone all over the Abbott house and found zilch.

  • Trouble is, this guy knows zilch about the web.

  • A couple of thousand eyes have looked and gotten zilch.

  • The triumph of Liberal principles zilch's or of national aspirations in Germany, or elsewhere Policy of in Europe, might easily, as the events of 1848 proved, stability.

  • Yet around there i get zilch on my Orange phone.

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Words Starting With

ZZIZIL

Words Ending With

HCHLCH

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