gooseberries

/G UW1 S B EH0 R IY0 Z/

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.

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