Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/August 6

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Word of the day
for August 6
nothingburger n (originally and chiefly US, informal)
  1. An unimportant person; a nobody, a nonentity.
  2. Something of less importance than its treatment suggests; also, something which is bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact.

nothingburger adj

  1. (originally and chiefly US, informal) Of less importance than its treatment suggests; insignificant, unimportant; also, bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact.

The American gossip columnist Louella Parsons, who apparently coined the word, was born on this day in 1881.

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