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Synonyms
beans, bubkes (also bupkes), continental, damn, darn (also durn), diddly [slang], diddly-squat [slang], doodley-squat (or doodly-squat), fig, ghost, hoot, iota, jot, lick, modicum, rap, squat [slang], syllable, tittle, whoop
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15th century, in the meaning defined above
Middle English, probably alteration of wiht, wight creature, thing — more at wight
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