A quantity of no importance. Synonyms:aught, cipher, cypher, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo."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"
... carefully throwing away the sand with their hands from the centre, until they had worked down to a deep narrow hole, round the sides of which, and embedded in the sand, were four fine large eggs of a delicate pink colour, and fully the size of a goose egg. I had often seen these hills before, but did not know that they were nests, and that they contained so valuable a prize to a traveller in the desert. The eggs were presented to me by the natives, and ... — Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre Read full book for free!
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