pick gooseberry

English

Verb

pick gooseberry (third-person singular simple present picks gooseberry, present participle picking gooseberry, simple past and past participle picked gooseberry)

1. Synonym of play gooseberry

Related terms

• gooseberry-picker (“chaperone”)

References

• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “pick gooseberry”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 419.