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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a quantity of no importance;
- Example: "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
- Example: "reduced to nil all the work we had done"
- Example: "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"
- Example: "it was all for naught"
- Example: "I didn't hear zilch about it"
[syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Goose egg \Goose egg\
   1. 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]
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the
      head.
      [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

goose egg
    n 1: 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" [syn: nothing,
         nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
         goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]