nothingburger vs zilch

nothingburger

noun
  • A person who is a nonentity. 

  • Something of less importance than its treatment suggests. 

  • A person or object that is bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact. 

adj
  • bland or unremarkable in appearance 

  • disreputable, as of a person 

zilch

noun
  • Nothing, zero. 

adj
  • No, zero, non-existent. 

verb
  • To cause to score nothing, to thoroughly defeat. 

How often have the words nothingburger and zilch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )