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Nothing vs Nithing - What's the difference?

nothing | nithing |

As nouns the difference between nothing and nithing

is that nothing is something trifling, or of no consequence or importance while nithing is a coward, dastard, wretch.

As a pronoun nothing

is not any thing; no thing.

As an adverb nothing

is (archaic) not at all; in no way.

nothing

English

Alternative forms

* (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin'

Pronoun

(wikipedia nothing) (English Pronouns)
  • Not any thing; no thing.
  • *
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
  • (slang, in double negatives) Anything
    • I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything].

    Synonyms

    * (not any thing) ** (standard) not a thing ** (slang) jack, nada, zip ** (vulgar slang) bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all ** (Northern English dialect) nowt :: See * (something trifling) nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

    Antonyms

    * anything * everything * something

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
    • What happened to your face?'' — ''It's nothing.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings , but pursuances of old truths.
  • A trivial remark (especially in the term (sweet nothings)).
  • A nobody (insignificant person).
    • You're nothing to me now!

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (archaic) Not at all; in no way.
  • *

    • Related terms

    * anything * everything * something * thing

    Derived terms

    * benothing * better than nothing * for nothing * if nothing else * it's nothing * have nothing on (someone) * leave nothing in the tank * less than nothing * next to nothing * nothing at all * nothing but * nothing doing * nothingness * nothing succeeds like success * there's nothing to it * think nothing of it

    See also

    * nobody, no one * nowhere

    References

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    Statistics

    * English compound determinatives English indefinite pronouns English refractory feminine rhymes English third person pronouns 1000 English basic words

    nithing

    English

    Alternative forms

    *niddering *niding

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a coward, dastard, wretch
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1903 , year_published=2009 , edition=ebook , editor= , author=Ottilie A. Liljencrantz , title=The Ward of King Canute , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=To get gold to buy peace, they will sell their children into slavery. Sooner than look our swords in the face, they will yield us their daughters to be our thralls! Oath-breakers, nithings ! Will you be beaten by such? Vikings, Odinmen, forward! }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1905 , year_published=2005 , edition=ebook , editor= , author=George Burton Adams , title=The History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=For this siege the king again appealed to the country and called for the help of all under the old Saxon penalty of the disgraceful name of "nithing ." }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-05-23 , year= , first= , last= , author=Ilya Somin , quotee=comment by Michael Ejercito , authorlink= , title=Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism , site=The Volokh Conspiracy citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-01 , passage= Do victims of the Holocaust and anti-Judaism care about how logical and unmalicious Jacoby's motives are? / Do you think Jeff Jacoby is a Nazi nithing or a Holocaust denier? }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)