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World Wide Words is asked to help out with the origin of 'Zilch'. ... [Q] From Bill Penn: My source books give me a totally unsatisfactory background on the word zilch. (Please note I resisted saying the books gave me zilch on ... You’re right that dictionaries are almost uniformly cautious about the origin of this word,
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zilch "nothing," 1966, from earlier sense of "meaningless speech" (1960), originally Mr. Zilch, (1931) comic character in the magazine "Ballyhoo." Perhaps from U.S. college slang (early 1900s) Joe Zilsch ... zip (n.) "zero," 1900, student slang for a grade of zero on a test, etc.; of unknown origin; cf. zilch.
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Thesaurus.com Free Toolbar; Look Up Zilch Instantly. Faster Page Loads With Fewer Ads. ... nil, no one, no one at all, no part, nobody, not a bit, not a soul, not a thing, not any, not anyone, not anything, not one, nothing, zero, zilch...
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thesaurus.reference.com/browse/zilch
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Jan 1990 zilch Page 6 HISTORY Origin unknown. Possibly a navy or bar game. Scoring in most versions is 100 times the numbers used here. ... Our earlier version of zilch only allowed 3 of a kind to score, so that 5 4's would score 4 points and still leave a pair of non-scoring 4's. Numerous scoresheets of our noteworthy...
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www.cs.duke.edu/~des/other_stuff/zilch.html
www.cs.duke.edu/~des/other_stuff/zilch.html
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Related to creative origin of Mr. Zilch in Ballyhoo, 1930's humor magazine. ... "If the homeless wind up with zilch," James retorted, veiling his indignation behind a malevolent smile, "it's because they deserve zilch."
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zilch
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zilch
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