zilchEnglishOxford New American Dictionaryzilch /zilCH, zɪltʃ / informal ▸ pronoun nothing: I did absolutely zilch. ▸ determiner not any; no: the character has zilch class. – ORIGIN 1960s : origin uncertain; perhaps from a Mr Zilch, a character in the 1930s US humorous magazine Ballyhoo.