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gooseberry-pickers

gooseberry-pickers is the plural of gooseberry-picker.

Meaning of gooseberry-picker

Noun

gooseberry-picker (plural gooseberry-pickers)

  1. (British, archaic, slang) One who works on behalf of another person who takes the credit for the work.
  2. (British, archaic, slang) A chaperone.
    • The Solicitor-General: I understand that a gooseberry-picker is the person who stands by whilst a young man and young woman are making love (laughter).1869, Susannah M. Saurin (plaintiff.), Extraordinary Trial by a Sister of Mercy: Saurin Versus Starr (page 78)

Questions about gooseberry-pickers

What is gooseberry-pickers the plural of?
Gooseberry-pickers is the plural of gooseberry-picker.

Words near gooseberry-pickers in the dictionary

  1. gooseberry wigs
  2. gooseberry-eyed
  3. gooseberry-grinder
  4. gooseberry-grinders
  5. gooseberry-picker
  6. gooseberry-pickers
  7. gooseberrying
  8. gooseberryish
  9. gooseberrylike
  10. goosebone
  11. goosebones

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