gooseberry

Meaning of gooseberry

noun
  1. A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
    We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.
  2. Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.
  3. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
  4. (British slang) A chaperone.
  5. 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.
  6. (British slang) A fool.
  7. (British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
  8. (British slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Information about gooseberry

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of gooseberry is: gooseberries.
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Hyphenation of gooseberry

goose-berry

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • gooseberry is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

gooseberry synonyms

Meaning :

goosegog

Translation of gooseberry

Words that rhyme with gooseberry

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