- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Bupkis—beans, but always meant to be something worthless Like, “What will I get for all my hard work on this book? Bupkis!” From Evan Morris, The Word Detective (2001): The word you’re looking for is not butkis It's bupkes (also spelled bubkis, bupkis, and bubkes), which is Yiddish for "beans," or, figuratively, "nothing, nada, zilch
- What is the origin of the phrase zero, zip, zilch, nada?
The phrase, with variants, predates Batman: The Animated Series (1992 to 1995) The earliest result in Google Books is a snippet of Me, Minsky Max by Bruce Pollock (Page 221, 1978):
- meaning - What is the etymology of the names for the number 0 in . . .
I was always wondering what is the etymology of the different names of number 0 In sports like tennis, cricket, and football, the number 0 has the very specialized names "love", "duck", and "nil"
- Polite version of They dont give us jacksh*t
boo – bumpkiss – bupkis – dick – diddly-squat – f**k all – fu**le – goose egg – jack – jack sh!t – jack squat – nunya – sh!t – squat – zilch – zip – zippo Not all of these would fit your purpose If I had to choose, in a semi-professional situation where I would not want to swear, I might go with
- meaning - What does TL;DR mean and how is it used? - English Language . . .
The OED has bupkis of course To clarify the likely intended meaning (in response to a question below): if 'tl;dr' is a one-word reply to a lengthy post then it is likely to be intended as a riposte or at best a rebuke to the person who posted the lengthy text, whereas
- word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and gt;?
+1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely supported than that of the other symbols
- How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring?
In fact it has made itself into its own meaning - it no longer needs explanation and is generally accepted world wide as a representation of sleeping The reason it even became what it now is, is almost lost, such as the meaning of the wrong end of the stick I’ll let you figure that one out
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
@WS2 In speech, very nearly always In writing, much less so I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”
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