goose egg

• POS: Noun Phrase

CIDE DICTIONARY

goose egg,  

•  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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the head.  [PJC]

ROGET THESAURUS

goose egg

Zero

N 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, not one, not a one, not any, nary a one, not a, never a, not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot, not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.