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"etymology_text": "From the oval shape of both a goose's egg and the Arabic numeral zero (0).",
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"text": "I missed every question on the quiz and got a goose egg.",
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"text": "Grandmaster and grand duffer alike prefer the all-important point to the ignominious goose egg.",
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"Zero; nothing."
],
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"Canada",
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"US",
"American English"
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"nothing",
"nothing"
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"(Canada, US, informal) Zero; nothing."
],
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"word": "duck egg"
}
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nula",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "нула"
},
{
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"alt": "ling⁴ gai¹ daan⁶⁻²",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "零雞蛋 /零鸡蛋"
},
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"sense": "nothing",
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},
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"word": "零蛋"
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"sense": "nothing",
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},
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"roman": "ppang",
"sense": "nothing",
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"sense": "nothing",
"word": "telur ayam"
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"english": "hole of a bagel",
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"roman": "dýrka ot búblika",
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"A swelling caused by a bump on the head."
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"(informal) A swelling caused by a bump on the head."
],
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"roman": "cicina",
"sense": "swelling or bump",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
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"sense": "swelling or bump",
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
],
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}
]
}
],
"word": "goose egg"
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"etymology_text": "From the oval shape of both a goose's egg and the Arabic numeral zero (0).",
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"form": "goose eggs",
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}
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"text": "I missed every question on the quiz and got a goose egg.",
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},
{
"ref": "1949 March, I. A. Horowitz, “Readers' Games”, in Chess Review:",
"text": "Grandmaster and grand duffer alike prefer the all-important point to the ignominious goose egg.",
"type": "quote"
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],
"glosses": [
"Zero; nothing."
],
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"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
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"American English"
],
[
"Zero",
"zero"
],
[
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],
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"(Canada, US, informal) Zero; nothing."
],
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"word": "duck egg"
}
],
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"A swelling caused by a bump on the head."
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"bump"
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],
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"(informal) A swelling caused by a bump on the head."
],
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nula",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "нула"
},
{
"alt": "ling⁴ gai¹ daan⁶⁻²",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "零雞蛋 /零鸡蛋"
},
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"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "ah-nn̄g",
"sense": "nothing",
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"Hokkien"
],
"word": "鴨卵 /鸭卵"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "ah-bú-nn̄g, ah-bó-nn̄g",
"sense": "nothing",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "鴨母卵 /鸭母卵"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yādàn",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "鴨蛋 /鸭蛋"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "língdàn",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "零蛋"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "überhaupt nichts"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ppang",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "빵"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "telur ayam"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "hole of a bagel",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dýrka ot búblika",
"sense": "nothing",
"word": "ды́рка от бу́блика"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "cicina",
"sense": "swelling or bump",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "цицина"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "swelling or bump",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beule"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šíška",
"sense": "swelling or bump",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ши́шка"
}
],
"word": "goose egg"
}
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