do gooseberry
English edit
Verb edit
do gooseberry (third-person singular simple present does gooseberry, present participle doing gooseberry, simple past did gooseberry, past participle done gooseberry)
- Synonym of play gooseberry
References edit
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “do gooseberry”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 419.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “do gooseberry”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.