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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



... own breast cancers—twice. The first time I was only 23 years old. One night I noticed that it hurt to sleep the way I usually did on my left side because there was a hard lump in my left breast. It was quite large—about the size of a goose egg. Having just completed RN training two years prior, I had been well brain washed about my poor prognosis and knew exactly what requisite actions ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
... Syndicate faced each other across the breakfast table with appetites in no wise diminished by the exciting events of the preceding day. Captain Scraggs appeared with a lump on the back of his head as big as a goose egg. The doughty commodore had a cut over his right eye, and the top of his sinful head was so sore, where the earthenware pot had struck him, that even the simple operation of winking his bloodshot eyes was productive of pain. About a teaspoonful of Kandavu real estate had ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... turnips. Ain' no trouble to mind it neither. First, I just washes my hands right clean like en takes en mixes up my meal en water together wid my hand till I gets a right stiff dough. Den I pinches off a piece de dough bout big as a goose egg en flattens it out wid my hand en drops it in de pot wid de greens. Calls dat boil dumplings. I think bout I got a mind dat I gwine cook some of dem in dat turnip pot directly, too. No, mam, I don' never eat dinner till it come bout time for ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various


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