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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nobody \No"bod*y\, noun; pl. {Nobodies}. [No, adjective + body.]
1. No person; no one; not anybody.
2. Hence: A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nobody
noun: a person of no influence [syn: {cipher}, {cypher}, {nonentity}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "nobody": a nobody, a nothing, cipher, common man, dud, dummy, figurehead, hollow man, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, nary one, nebbish, never a one, no man, no one, nobody on earth, nobody one knows, nobody present, nonentity, not a soul, not one, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, thing of naught, trifle, unknown, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch
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