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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "nenio"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ei-kukaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "que dalle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "que pouic"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "nix"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nani mo",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "何も"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "canci"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ioc"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boacă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ničevó",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ничего́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni čertá",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "ни черта́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni figá",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ни фига́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni šišá",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ни шиша́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni xrená",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ни хрена́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni xujá",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "ни хуя́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni xerá",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ни хера́"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "noll"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nolla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "ingenting"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "hiç"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "(informal) nothing",
"word": "değersiz"
}
],
"word": "zilch"
}
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{
"ref": "1977 February 3, The Telegraph, page 14",
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},
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"form": "zilching",
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"ref": "1969, University of South Dakota, Current Slang",
"text": "We zilched them on that rubber.",
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"ref": "1990 April 2, USA Today, page 20",
"text": "My favorite film of 1989 got zilched... That would be Field of Dreams.",
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],
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[
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"nothing",
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],
[
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[
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],
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],
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]
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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