gooseberries
Meaning of gooseberries
noun
- A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.
- Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.
- Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
- (British slang) A chaperone.
- An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.
- (British slang) A fool.
- (British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
- (British slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
Information about gooseberries
- It is a name.
- The singular form of gooseberries is: gooseberry.
- Languages in which gooseberries is used:
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Hyphenation of gooseberries
goose-ber-ries
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- gooseberries is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
gooseberries synonyms
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Words that rhyme with gooseberries
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