GOOSE EGG: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | goos eg
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| | Definition: | | [n] 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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | aught, cipher, cypher, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip |
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| | See Also: | | bugger all, Fanny Adams, fuck all, nihil, relative quantity, sweet Fanny Adams | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}. [Slang]
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