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Goose egg

noun

A quantity of no importance. Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo. "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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"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

Words linked to "Goose egg" : fuck all, sweet Fanny Adams, relative quantity, bugger all, Fanny Adams, nihil