goose egg : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: goose egg	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for goose egg
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
goose egg 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" Synonym(s): nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Goose egg \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]