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goose egg
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun goose egg has 1 sense
- goose egg(n = noun.quantity) aught, cipher, cypher, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" is a kind of relative quantity
has particulars: nihil, bugger all, fanny adams, fuck all, sweet fanny adams
CIDE DICTIONARY
goose egg,
- In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also
duck egg . [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the head. [PJC]
ROGET THESAURUS
goose egg
Zero
N zero, nothing, null, nul, naught, nought, void, cipher, goose egg, none, nobody, no one, nichts, nixie, nix, zilch, zip, zippo, not a soul, ame qui vive, absence, unsubstantiality, not one, not a one, not any, nary a one, not a, never a, not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot, not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.
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