goose egg
    n 1: 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,
         goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]

Goose egg \Goose egg\
   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]
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the
      head.
      [PJC]