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Goose egg   /gus ɛg/   Listen
noun
Goose egg  n.  
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)
2.
A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the head.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Goose egg" Quotes from Famous Books



... beautiful researches of Wells. I do not think that any boy of average intelligence will be satisfied with the simple answer that the dew falls. He will wish to learn how you know that it falls, and, if acquainted with the notions of the middle ages, he may refer to the opinion of Father Laurus, that a goose egg filled in the morning with dew and exposed to the sun, will rise like a balloon—a swan's egg being better for the experiment than a goose egg. It is impossible to give the boy a clear notion of the beautiful phenomenon to which his question ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... she ever gets. Right there she made a new rule, and it was that two dozen eggs must be brought to the house each day, whether any were hidden or not. She had to stop baking until she got eggs. She said a few times she had used a goose egg in custard. I could fix that. I knew where one of our gray geese had a nest, and if she'd cook any goose egg, it would be a gray one. Of course I had sense enough not to take a blue one. So I slipped from the east door, crossed the yard and orchard ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... he succeeds. If he succeeds, the one, into whose hole the ball rolls, runs forward, picks it up and endeavors to hit any other player from the position in which he picked up the ball. The rest may run in their effort to get away. Should he miss, a goose egg—(a small stone)—is placed in his hole. Should he succeed in hitting a player, a goose egg is placed in the hole of that player. The one to whom is awarded the goose egg is the next to roll the ball from the dead line in the endeavor to get it into a hole. Any player ...
— School, Church, and Home Games • George O. Draper
... there were five women who were in a field reaping corn. None of them had any children, but they were all wishing for a child. All at once they found a big goose egg, almost as ...
— Folk Tales Every Child Should Know • Various


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