[へいだん;へいたん;べいだん, heidan ; heitan ; beidan] (n) type of pastry of the Heian period made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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}]
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