pick gooseberry
English edit
Verb edit
pick gooseberry (third-person singular simple present picks gooseberry, present participle picking gooseberry, simple past and past participle picked gooseberry)
- Synonym of play gooseberry
Related terms edit
- gooseberry-picker (“chaperone”)
References edit
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “pick gooseberry”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 419.