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Definition: Goose Egg |
Goose EggNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Goose EggSynonyms: aught (n), cipher (n), cypher (n), nada (n), naught (n), nil (n), nix (n), nothing (n), null (n), zero (n), zilch (n), zip (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Zero | Noun: zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void; cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts, nixie, nix; zilch, zip, zippo; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence; unsubstantiality. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goose egg | 25 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goose egg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gåseæg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ganze-ei, ganzeei. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hanhenmuna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oeuf d'oie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gänseei. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυγό χήνας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uovo d'oca. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oosegay eggay ovo de ganso. (various references) huevo de oca. (various references) gåsägg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-g-o-o-s" | |
-3 letters: gogos, goose, ogees. | |
-4 letters: eggs, egos, gees, goes, gogo, goos, ogee, sego. | |
-5 letters: egg, ego, gee, goo, gos, oes, ose, see, seg. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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