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feh | null |

As an interjection feh

is an expression of disgust or contempt.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

feh

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • An expression of disgust or contempt.
  • * Linda Glaser, Bridge to America: Based on a True Story (2005) p. 116:
  • Kvola made a face. "It’s worse than an outhouse." She covered her nose. "Uh!" "It is" "''Feh !''" We all agreed and covered our noses. But Ma wasn't interested in our complaints.
    ...
    It smelled like rotten food, stinking bodies, and stale air. ''Feh !
  • * Sidney Weissman, East Side Stories: Tales of Jewish Life in the Lower East Side of New York in the 1930’s (2000) p. 100:
  • "A gangster. Feh ! Disgusting” she said roughly grabbing Marty by the arm. "We go across the street."
  • * Barry B. Longyear, Enemy Mine (1980) p. 81:
  • "Look at it, how its pale skin blotches — and that evil-smelling thatch on top. Feh ! The smell!

    Usage notes

    Usually followed by an exclamation point.

    Anagrams

    *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----