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nothingy

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English

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Etymology

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From nothing +‎ -y.

Adjective

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nothingy (comparative more nothingy, superlative most nothingy)

  1. Having very little impact or importance; trivial; insignificant.
    Synonym: nothingish
    • 2013, Ali Cronin, Santa Baby, →ISBN:
      We were still chitchatting in the same nothingy vein five minutes later when George opened his bedroom door.
    • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 28:
      Allhallows-on-Sea's basically a big holiday park spilling up to the shorefront from a nothingy village behind
    • 2015, Sarah Butler, Before the Fire, →ISBN:
      Scrap signs in front of a low-slung brick building; a nothingy sort of a park with a path cut through the middle of it and daisies dotting the grass.