英语词汇zilch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

zilch. Zilch, “nothing,” is an Americanism that has been traced back to the 1920s when a Joe Zilch meant a good for nothing college boy. Other sources, however, trace the expres- sion to a character called Mr. Zilch in a Ballyhoo magazine car- toon series of the 1930s, in which Mr. Zilch was never seen but scantily clad, wide-eyed girls, reacting to things he had obvi- ously done, cried “Oh, Mr. Zilch!” Since Mr. Zilch wasn’t de- picted, according to this theory, he came to represent nothing, or zilch.

词汇	zilch
词源	zilch. Zilch, “nothing,” is an Americanism that has been traced back to the 1920s when a Joe Zilch meant a good for nothing college boy. Other sources, however, trace the expres- sion to a character called Mr. Zilch in a Ballyhoo magazine car- toon series of the 1930s, in which Mr. Zilch was never seen but scantily clad, wide-eyed girls, reacting to things he had obvi- ously done, cried “Oh, Mr. Zilch!” Since Mr. Zilch wasn’t de- picted, according to this theory, he came to represent nothing, or zilch.
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