Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) insipid, boring, insignificant, pointless.

1956		Sporting News 9 Sept. p. 35 q. in Spivey ‘If Only You Were White’ 263: ‘I can throw hard enough to get a nothing hitter like you out any day’.
1961		J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 154: Sure was a nothing chick in bed too.
1974		D. Mamet Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1994) 97: That’s all it takes ... to make the difference between a knockout looking broad, and a nothing looking broad.
1977		A. Hoffman Property Of (1978) 73: This is a nothing job.
1990		R. Campbell Sweet La-La Land (1999) 74: Once the co-manager of a nothing motel halfway to nowhere.
1998		A. Warner Sopranos 46: ‘That ring on your engaged finger, Micehlle?’ ‘Nah, it’s just a crappy-nothing-ring’.
1999		N. Cohn Yes We Have No 62: We were never meant to get stuck [...] in a nothing town.
2000		G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 87: She had mousy brown hair, a nothing chest, a flat ass.
2012		G. Flynn Gone Girl 127: ‘It was such a nothing argument [...] Just both of us scrapping at each other, the way couples do’.