The Collaborative International Dictionary
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]
A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the head.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) zero; nothing. 2 (context informal English) A swelling caused by a bump on the head.
WordNet
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" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, naught, zero, zilch, zip]
Usage examples of "goose egg".
Had this someone hit her on the head, or had she gained the goose egg by a more mundane method, such as falling?
It was an ordinary goose egg, except that its shell was not quite smooth.
Atop her dark braids sat a crown of golden trefoil leaves among rubies and pearls with a moonstone larger than a goose egg, and around her neck hung a broad stole, dangling to her knees and embroidered along its length with trees.
We scored a goose egg on that, so we parked and took the elevator to the sixth floor.
I did check his bank records, finding an $800 balance with no recent withdrawals, and when I heard that a nationwide and Mexico APB had been issued on Lee and his '40 Ford, yielding goose egg, my instincts told me he had fled way south of the border, where the Rurales used gringo police bulletins as toilet paper.
I called R&I and got goose egg on Scotland-born George Tildens--and I knew I'd go crazy if I waited overnight to make the print confirmation.
And Mama Nguza, who walks with her head held strangely high on account of the giant goiter nestled like a goose egg under her chin.
Slowly, she peeled away the cloth to reveal an emerald the size of a goose egg.
This was an amber sphere about the size of a goose egg with no inclusions, amber being about the only material suitable for an Earth Master to use for scrying.