A quantity of no importance. Synonyms:aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, 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"
... la Marck stealing the Duke's spectacles from his nose, while the Governor was supposed to be uttering his habitual expression whenever any intelligence of importance was brought to him: 'No es nada, no es ... — The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley