gooseberryn.

Brit.

/ˈɡʊzb(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈɡusˌbɛri/,

/ˈɡuzb(ə)ri/

Forms: 1500s gose, gows-, 1500s–1700s goos-, 1600s gous-, 1800s Scottish guse-, 1500s– goose-: and see berry n.¹

Etymology: Probably < goose n. + berry n.¹The grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animals are so commonly inexplicable, that the want of appropriateness in the meaning affords no sufficient ground for assuming that the word is an etymologizing corruption, e.g. of Dutch kruisbezie , German krausbeere , or of a hypothetical *gorseberry or *groseberry (see groser n., groset n.); though the last derives some little support from the existence of the form gozell n. for *grosell.

1. The edible berry or fruit of any of the thorny species of the genus Ribes, the best known and most commonly cultivated of which is R. Grossularia; also the plant or shrub itself (more fully gooseberry-bush, gooseberry-tree).

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > gooseberry

gooseberry?1533

groser1548

dewberry1578

thorn-grape1578

feaberry1597

goosegog1823

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry

gooseberry?1533

groser1548

St John's berry1561

dewberry1578

thorn-grape1578

feaberry1597

pearl gooseberry1688

wineberry1703

dayberry1736

honey-blob1746

blobc1750

groset1786

goosegog1823

Worcesterberry1923

golden berry1930

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > gooseberry bush

theve-thorna1300

greisilerc1430

gooseberry1663

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Civ ^v Goseberrys, groiselles.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19 The goosebery, Respis, & Roses.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 174 All the other giftes appertinent to man, as the malice of his age shapes the one not worth a goosbery.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 59 It is very good..to stuffe them with sowre-grapes, or vnripe-gooseberries.

1663 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 131 Trees received from Mr. Hammond. 6 Apples. 6 Corans. 6 Goosberryes.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 116 Goosberries being through ripe, taste the most like Grapes of any of our English Fruits.

1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 42 Crystal Gooseberries Are piled on Heaps; in vain the Parent-Tree Defends her luscious Fruit with pointed Spears.

1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 380 In the gooseberry and currant, the leaves have chiefly performed their office when the fruit is ripened off.

†2. Extended to the other species of Ribes; see currant n. 2. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > gooseberry > gooseberry-like fruit

gooseberry1578

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry > gooseberry-like fruit

gooseberry1578

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxx. 635 The Ribes or beyond sea gooseberries.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xx. 682 The blacke gooseberies growe of them selues in moyst vntoyled places.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xx. 683 Ribes rubrum; in English Redde Gooseberries, beyond-sea Gooseberries, Bastard Corinthes.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 121 Red Gooseberries.

3. Applied to various shrubs resembling the gooseberry (sense 1) in some way, as American gooseberry n. Heterotrichum patens or H. niveum. Barbados gooseberry n. Pereskia aculeata. Cape gooseberry n. Physalis edulis or P. peruviana. Coromandel gooseberry n. Averrhoa Carambola. little gooseberry n. Australian Buchanania mangoides. Otaheite gooseberry n. (or Tahiti gooseberry) Phyllanthus distichus.

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gooseberry1847

1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. xiv. 497 The little gooseberry-tree (Coniogeton Arborescens).

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 784 Gooseberry, American...Gooseberry, Barbadoes.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 543/1 Coromandel Gooseberry...Tahiti Gooseberry.

1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants at Winter Cherry The Cape Gooseberry..a native of tropical America.

4. Short for gooseberry-wine n. Also applied jocularly to inferior or spurious brands of champagne.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > others

cherry-winea1665

morello winea1665

strawberry winea1665

orange wine1675

raspberry wine1676

birch-wine1681

grape-wine1718

cowslip wine1723

barley wine1728

ginger wine1734

gooseberry1766

raspberry1768

mead-wine1794

parsnip wine1830

milk-wine1837

tea-wine1892

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. v. 45 The fond mother..insisted upon her landlord's stepping in, and tasting a glass of her gooseberry.

1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 361/1 Fill us a cup of that sparkling gooseberry—we will drink no wise, melancholy, politic port on this day.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. iv. 33 Pen could not but respect his connoisseurship as he pronounced the champagne to be condemned gooseberry.

1893 K. Deighton in C. Lamb Ess. Elia (new ed.) 130 Whether used literally of gooseberry wine, or of champagne, inferior brands of which wine are often spoken of contemptuously as ‘gooseberry’ [etc.].

5. A chaperon or one who ‘plays propriety’ with a pair of lovers, esp. in to play gooseberry. (Cf. gooseberry-picker n. at Compounds 2.)

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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > have affectionate or sexual relationship [verb (intransitive)] > play gooseberry

to play gooseberry1837

the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > pair of lovers > unwanted companion of a pair of lovers

gooseberry1837

1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Gubbs, a go-between or gooseberry. ‘To play gooseberry’ is to give a pretext for two young people to be together.

1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 169 Gooseberry I may be..but, at all events, I won't be instrumental in making myself so.

1881 W. E. Norris Matrimony I. 21 Let the old woman choose between playing gooseberry or loitering behind alone.

1889 G. Allen Tents of Shem II. 118 Madame didn't know a single word of English and was, therefore, admirably adapted..for enacting with effect the part of the common or garden gooseberry.

a. slang. old gooseberry = the deuce (deuce n.² b); esp. to play (†up) old gooseberry, to make havoc (†see also quot. 1796).

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > cause devastation

to make stressa1400

to make havoc1480

ravage1604

to work havoca1774

to play (up) old gooseberry1827

to play havoc1910

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) He played up old gooseberry among them; said of a person who, by force or threats, suddenly puts an end to a riot or disturbance.

1827 Sporting Mag. 21 144 Several of the gentlemen rode over the dressed grounds and played old gooseberry with them.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxviii. 447 I'll play Old Gooseberry with the office, and make you glad to buy me out at a good high figure.

1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons III. xiii. 149 You should have a tea~stick, and take them [dogs] by the tail..and lay on like old gooseberry.

1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxvii. 249 A great gale..played old gooseberry with the boats.

b. gooseberry bush n. used allusively in reference to the explanation of child-birth sometimes given in answer to a child's question.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > supposed origin of babies

parsley-bed1622

gooseberry bush1944

1944 ‘C. Brahms’ & ‘S. J. Simon’ Titania has Mother xiii. 146 Fairy Peaseblossom..had never thought she would find herself hankering after one of Simple Simon's curious questions, but now she found she simply couldn't wait for the next one—even if it should be ‘but why a goose~berry bush again’ ?

1952 V. Wilkins King Reluctant i. iii. 47 When girls come home and tell their fond relations that they have just found a baby..under a gooseberry bush, you know what the world says, don't you?

1956 B. Goolden At Foot of Hills x. 234 Perhaps she's one of the gooseberry bush brigade and is horrified by the precocity of the modern young. Or is it just because she loathes babies?

1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? iv. 69 Middle-class mothers are an anxious lot; they have no precedent on child-rearing which hasn't been kicked into limbo along with gooseberry bushes.

1969 Guardian 28 Oct. 11/5 Many children said they were glad to know what happened, and not be fobbed off with a lot of gooseberry bushes.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. Attributive.

gooseberry-bush n.

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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 226/2 Goseberry busshe, groseillier.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.v Vua crispa is also called Grossularia, in english a Groser bushe, a Goosebery bush.

1771 Richardson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 183 On the goosberry-bush and currant the same Aphides may be found.

gooseberry-cream n.

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1687 J. Shirley Accomplished Ladies Rich Closet of Rarities xvii. 151 To make Gooseberry-Cream.

gooseberry-fair n.

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1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 437 What are called the ‘Gooseberry fairs’, by the wayside, whereat heats are run upon half-killed horses, or..donkeys.

gooseberry-feast n.

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1796 Sporting Mag. 8 274 The late Bath annual gooseberry feast.

gooseberry-jam n.

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1846 Lady Montefiore Jewish Man. viii. 165 Strawberry jam... By this recipe also are made raspberry, currant, goose~berry, apricot, and other jams.

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxi. 778 (heading) Gooseberry Jam.

gooseberry-jelly n.

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1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxi. 779 (heading) Gooseberry Jelly.

gooseberry-pudding n.

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1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vi. 157 Goosberry Pudding.

gooseberry-sauce n.

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1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery iv. 137 (heading) Gooseberry sauce for mackerel.

gooseberry-show n.

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1796 Sporting Mag. 8 274 The annual gooseberry shew, held at the house of Mr. Robert Huxley.

1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 559 The great number of gooseberry shows held in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire.

gooseberry-tart n.

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1785 A. Ellicott in Life & Lett. (1908) 44 Our waiters are now preparing some Goose-Berry Tart.

1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 185 After imprudently eating gooseberry tart, she was seized with violent pain.

gooseberry-tree n.

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?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Di^v Gowsbery tre, groiselier.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 197 Fig-trees, Quince-Trees, Goosberry-Trees.

gooseberry-wine n.

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1707 J. Moore Englands Interest (title page) How to Make..Gooseberry, and Mulberry Wines.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 321 They..brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty.

1971 Times 10 Nov. (Wine Suppl.) 3/6 Skilfully made gooseberry wine can be successfully passed off as champagne to the uninitiated.

b. Objective.

gooseberry-grower n.

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1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 15 He was much esteemed among the Class of Gooseberry Growers.

c. Similative.

† gooseberry-cheek n. Obsolete

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a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 86 First on her Goosberry Cheeks I mine eys Blasted.

gooseberry-eye n. (cf. gooseberry-eyed adj. at Compounds 2).

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc.

pinkany?1578

pig's eye1658

pigsney1664

ox-eye1688

pig-eye1714

sparkler1746

gooseberry-eye1789

eyelet1799

gooseberry-orb1803

pop-eye1828

swine eye1836

pink-eye1897

bug-eyes1905

1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 174 How sweetly roll your Gooseberry Eyes.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 422 A portly gentleman with gooseberry eyes.

gooseberry-orb n. = gooseberry-eye n.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc.

pinkany?1578

pig's eye1658

pigsney1664

ox-eye1688

pig-eye1714

sparkler1746

gooseberry-eye1789

eyelet1799

gooseberry-orb1803

pop-eye1828

swine eye1836

pink-eye1897

bug-eyes1905

1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1826) III. v. 102 When [she] compared..Pembroke's dark and ever-animated eyes, with the gooseberry orbs of Lascelles.

C2. Special combinations.

gooseberry-caterpillar n. ? the caterpillar of the gooseberry-moth.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > abraxas grossulariata (magpie moth) > larva

gooseberry-caterpillar1882

1882 Garden 6 May 319/3 A sharp look out must now be kept for Gooseberry caterpillars.

gooseberry-eyed adj. (see quot.).

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having

goggle-eyedc1384

well-eyed1483

pink-eyed1519

hollow-eyeda1529

small-eyed1555

great-eyed1558

bird-eyed1564

out-eyed1570

large-eyed1575

full-eyed1581

bright-eyed1590

wall-eyed1590

beetle-eyed1594

fire-eyed?1594

young-eyed1600

open-eyed1601

soft-eyed1606

narrow-eyed1607

broad-eyed?1611

saucer-eyed1612

ox-eyed1621

pig-eyed1655

glare-eyed1683

pit-eyed1696

dove-eyed1717

laughing-eyed1784

almond1786

wide-eyed1789

moon-eyed1790

big-eyed1792

gooseberry-eyed1796

red-eyed1800

unsealed1800

screw-eyed1810

starry-eyed1818

pinkie-eyed1824

pop-eyed1830

bead-eyed1835

fishy-eyed1836

almond-eyed1849

boopic1854

sharp-set1865

bug-eyed1872

beady-eyed1873

bias-eyed1877

blank-eyed1881

gape-eyed1889

glass-eyed1889

stone-eyed1890

pie-eyed1900

slitty-eyed1908

steely-eyed1964

megalopic1985

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Gooseberry-eyed, one with dull grey eyes, like boiled gooseberries.

gooseberry-louse n. = harvest-bug n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > family Trombidiidae > member of

wheal-worm1648

harvest-bug1768

harvest-louse1775

gooseberry-louse1856

harvest-mite1874

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > family Tetranychidae > member of

red spider1646

harvest-bug1768

harvest-louse1775

gooseberry-louse1856

red mite1871

harvest-mite1874

harvest-tick1886

1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 290 The new insect called ‘harvest bugs’, or ‘gooseberry lice’..imported in some American plants.

gooseberry-moth n. the magpie-moth ( Abraxas grossulariata).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > abraxas grossulariata (magpie moth)

magpie moth?1749

gooseberry-moth1816

currant-moth1858

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxvi. 452 The caterpillars of the gooseberry-moth.

gooseberry-picker n. one who picks gooseberries, colloquial a chaperon (so gooseberry-picking n.).

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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > one in charge of young person > female

governoressc1422

governess?c1500

governante1637

gouvernante1667

duenna1709

chaperone1720

sheep-dog1847

gooseberry-picker1868

1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead ii. ix In his capacity of gooseberry-picker, Lord S. was led..into anything but pleasant pastures.

1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge III. xli. 128 He had a sort of ‘Don't mind me’ way with him that made him quite the perfection of a ‘gooseberry-picker’.

gooseberry-pie n. (a) a pie made of gooseberries, etc.; (b) (see quot. 1879).

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie

vaunt1508

warden-pie1579

apple pie1589

gooseberry-pie1747

plum pie1747

huckleberry pie1751

apple dowdy1823

cobbler1859

lemon pie1909

lemon meringue1914

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 114 A Custard is very good with the Gooseberry Pye.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 66 Go help your mother to make the gooseberry-pie.

1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Gooseberry pie, Epilobium hirsutum L., from the smell of the leaves.

gooseberry-season n. the time when gooseberries are ripe, esp. in big gooseberry season, the time of year when the newspapers have plenty of space to record trifles.

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1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 9 How to make up a good stout..dose of physic for your wife or servants, in the gooseberry season.

gooseberry-wig n. (see quot.).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > frizzled

tête de mouton1737

gooseberry-wig1796

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Gooseberry wig, a large frizzled wig; perhaps, from a supposed likeness to a gooseberry bush.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gooseberry
释义	gooseberryn. Brit. /ˈɡʊzb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɡusˌbɛri/, /ˈɡuzb(ə)ri/ Forms: 1500s gose, gows-, 1500s–1700s goos-, 1600s gous-, 1800s Scottish guse-, 1500s– goose-: and see berry n.¹ Etymology: Probably < goose n. + berry n.¹The grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animals are so commonly inexplicable, that the want of appropriateness in the meaning affords no sufficient ground for assuming that the word is an etymologizing corruption, e.g. of Dutch kruisbezie , German krausbeere , or of a hypothetical gorseberry or groseberry (see groser n., groset n.); though the last derives some little support from the existence of the form gozell n. for grosell. 1. The edible berry or fruit of any of the thorny species of the genus Ribes, the best known and most commonly cultivated of which is R. Grossularia; also the plant or shrub itself (more fully gooseberry-bush, gooseberry-tree). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > gooseberry gooseberry?1533 groser1548 dewberry1578 thorn-grape1578 feaberry1597 goosegog1823 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry gooseberry?1533 groser1548 St John's berry1561 dewberry1578 thorn-grape1578 feaberry1597 pearl gooseberry1688 wineberry1703 dayberry1736 honey-blob1746 blobc1750 groset1786 goosegog1823 Worcesterberry1923 golden berry1930 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > gooseberry bush theve-thorna1300 greisilerc1430 gooseberry1663 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche* sig. Civ ^v Goseberrys, groiselles. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19 The goosebery, Respis, & Roses. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 174 All the other giftes appertinent to man, as the malice of his age shapes the one not worth a goosbery. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 59 It is very good..to stuffe them with sowre-grapes, or vnripe-gooseberries. 1663 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 131 Trees received from Mr. Hammond. 6 Apples. 6 Corans. 6 Goosberryes. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 116 Goosberries being through ripe, taste the most like Grapes of any of our English Fruits. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 42 Crystal Gooseberries Are piled on Heaps; in vain the Parent-Tree Defends her luscious Fruit with pointed Spears. 1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 380 In the gooseberry and currant, the leaves have chiefly performed their office when the fruit is ripened off. †2. Extended to the other species of Ribes; see currant n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > gooseberry > gooseberry-like fruit gooseberry1578 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry > gooseberry-like fruit gooseberry1578 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxx. 635 The Ribes or beyond sea gooseberries. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xx. 682 The blacke gooseberies growe of them selues in moyst vntoyled places. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xx. 683 Ribes rubrum; in English Redde Gooseberries, beyond-sea Gooseberries, Bastard Corinthes. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 121 Red Gooseberries. 3. Applied to various shrubs resembling the gooseberry (sense 1) in some way, as American gooseberry n. Heterotrichum patens or H. niveum. Barbados gooseberry n. Pereskia aculeata. Cape gooseberry n. Physalis edulis or P. peruviana. Coromandel gooseberry n. Averrhoa Carambola. little gooseberry n. Australian Buchanania mangoides. Otaheite gooseberry n. (or Tahiti gooseberry) Phyllanthus distichus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > gooseberry bush > shrub resembling gooseberry1847 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. xiv. 497 The little gooseberry-tree (Coniogeton Arborescens). 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 784 Gooseberry, American...Gooseberry, Barbadoes. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 543/1 Coromandel Gooseberry...Tahiti Gooseberry. 1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants at Winter Cherry The Cape Gooseberry..a native of tropical America. 4. Short for gooseberry-wine n. Also applied jocularly to inferior or spurious brands of champagne. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > others cherry-winea1665 morello winea1665 strawberry winea1665 orange wine1675 raspberry wine1676 birch-wine1681 grape-wine1718 cowslip wine1723 barley wine1728 ginger wine1734 gooseberry1766 raspberry1768 mead-wine1794 parsnip wine1830 milk-wine1837 tea-wine1892 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. v. 45 The fond mother..insisted upon her landlord's stepping in, and tasting a glass of her gooseberry. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 361/1 Fill us a cup of that sparkling gooseberry—we will drink no wise, melancholy, politic port on this day. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. iv. 33 Pen could not but respect his connoisseurship as he pronounced the champagne to be condemned gooseberry. 1893 K. Deighton in C. Lamb Ess. Elia (new ed.) 130 Whether used literally of gooseberry wine, or of champagne, inferior brands of which wine are often spoken of contemptuously as ‘gooseberry’ [etc.]. 5. A chaperon or one who ‘plays propriety’ with a pair of lovers, esp. in to play gooseberry. (Cf. gooseberry-picker n. at Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > love affair > have affectionate or sexual relationship [verb (intransitive)] > play gooseberry to play gooseberry1837 the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > pair of lovers > unwanted companion of a pair of lovers gooseberry1837 1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Gubbs, a go-between or gooseberry. ‘To play gooseberry’ is to give a pretext for two young people to be together. 1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 169 Gooseberry I may be..but, at all events, I won't be instrumental in making myself so. 1881 W. E. Norris Matrimony I. 21 Let the old woman choose between playing gooseberry or loitering behind alone. 1889 G. Allen Tents of Shem II. 118 Madame didn't know a single word of English and was, therefore, admirably adapted..for enacting with effect the part of the common or garden gooseberry. 6. a. slang. old gooseberry = the deuce (deuce n.² b); esp. to play (†up) old gooseberry, to make havoc (†see also quot. 1796). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > cause devastation to make stressa1400 to make havoc1480 ravage1604 to work havoca1774 to play (up) old gooseberry1827 to play havoc1910 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) He played up old gooseberry among them; said of a person who, by force or threats, suddenly puts an end to a riot or disturbance. 1827 Sporting Mag. 21 144 Several of the gentlemen rode over the dressed grounds and played old gooseberry with them. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxviii. 447 I'll play Old Gooseberry with the office, and make you glad to buy me out at a good high figure. 1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons III. xiii. 149 You should have a tea~stick, and take them [dogs] by the tail..and lay on like old gooseberry. 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxvii. 249 A great gale..played old gooseberry with the boats. b. gooseberry bush n. used allusively in reference to the explanation of child-birth sometimes given in answer to a child's question. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > supposed origin of babies parsley-bed1622 gooseberry bush1944 1944 ‘C. Brahms’ & ‘S. J. Simon’ Titania has Mother xiii. 146 Fairy Peaseblossom..had never thought she would find herself hankering after one of Simple Simon's curious questions, but now she found she simply couldn't wait for the next one—even if it should be ‘but why a goose~berry bush again’ ? 1952 V. Wilkins King Reluctant i. iii. 47 When girls come home and tell their fond relations that they have just found a baby..under a gooseberry bush, you know what the world says, don't you? 1956 B. Goolden At Foot of Hills x. 234 Perhaps she's one of the gooseberry bush brigade and is horrified by the precocity of the modern young. Or is it just because she loathes babies? 1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? iv. 69 Middle-class mothers are an anxious lot; they have no precedent on child-rearing which hasn't been kicked into limbo along with gooseberry bushes. 1969 Guardian 28 Oct. 11/5 Many children said they were glad to know what happened, and not be fobbed off with a lot of gooseberry bushes. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. Attributive. gooseberry-bush n. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 226/2 Goseberry busshe, groseillier. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.v Vua crispa is also called Grossularia, in english a Groser bushe, a Goosebery bush. 1771 Richardson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 183 On the goosberry-bush and currant the same Aphides may be found. gooseberry-cream n. ΚΠ 1687 J. Shirley Accomplished Ladies Rich Closet of Rarities xvii. 151 To make Gooseberry-Cream. gooseberry-fair n. ΚΠ 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 437 What are called the ‘Gooseberry fairs’, by the wayside, whereat heats are run upon half-killed horses, or..donkeys. gooseberry-feast n. ΚΠ 1796 Sporting Mag. 8 274 The late Bath annual gooseberry feast. gooseberry-jam n. ΚΠ 1846 Lady Montefiore Jewish Man. viii. 165 Strawberry jam... By this recipe also are made raspberry, currant, goose~berry, apricot, and other jams. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxi. 778 (heading) Gooseberry Jam. gooseberry-jelly n. ΚΠ 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxi. 779 (heading) Gooseberry Jelly. gooseberry-pudding n. ΚΠ 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vi. 157 Goosberry Pudding. gooseberry-sauce n. ΚΠ 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery iv. 137 (heading) Gooseberry sauce for mackerel. gooseberry-show n. ΚΠ 1796 Sporting Mag. 8 274 The annual gooseberry shew, held at the house of Mr. Robert Huxley. 1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 559 The great number of gooseberry shows held in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire. gooseberry-tart n. ΚΠ 1785 A. Ellicott in Life & Lett. (1908) 44 Our waiters are now preparing some Goose-Berry Tart. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 185 After imprudently eating gooseberry tart, she was seized with violent pain. gooseberry-tree n. ΚΠ ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Di^v Gowsbery tre, groiselier. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 197 Fig-trees, Quince-Trees, Goosberry-Trees. gooseberry-wine n. ΚΠ 1707 J. Moore Englands Interest (title page) How to Make..Gooseberry, and Mulberry Wines. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 321 They..brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. 1971 Times 10 Nov. (Wine Suppl.) 3/6 Skilfully made gooseberry wine can be successfully passed off as champagne to the uninitiated. b. Objective. gooseberry-grower n. ΚΠ 1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 15 He was much esteemed among the Class of Gooseberry Growers. c. Similative. † gooseberry-cheek n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 86 First on her Goosberry Cheeks I mine eys Blasted. gooseberry-eye n. (cf. gooseberry-eyed adj. at Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc. pinkany?1578 pig's eye1658 pigsney1664 ox-eye1688 pig-eye1714 sparkler1746 gooseberry-eye1789 eyelet1799 gooseberry-orb1803 pop-eye1828 swine eye1836 pink-eye1897 bug-eyes1905 1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 174 How sweetly roll your Gooseberry Eyes. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 422 A portly gentleman with gooseberry eyes. gooseberry-orb n. = gooseberry-eye n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc. pinkany?1578 pig's eye1658 pigsney1664 ox-eye1688 pig-eye1714 sparkler1746 gooseberry-eye1789 eyelet1799 gooseberry-orb1803 pop-eye1828 swine eye1836 pink-eye1897 bug-eyes1905 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1826) III. v. 102 When [she] compared..Pembroke's dark and ever-animated eyes, with the gooseberry orbs of Lascelles. C2. Special combinations. gooseberry-caterpillar n. ? the caterpillar of the gooseberry-moth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > abraxas grossulariata (magpie moth) > larva gooseberry-caterpillar1882 1882 Garden 6 May 319/3 A sharp look out must now be kept for Gooseberry caterpillars. gooseberry-eyed adj. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having goggle-eyedc1384 well-eyed1483 pink-eyed1519 hollow-eyeda1529 small-eyed1555 great-eyed1558 bird-eyed1564 out-eyed1570 large-eyed1575 full-eyed1581 bright-eyed1590 wall-eyed1590 beetle-eyed1594 fire-eyed?1594 young-eyed1600 open-eyed1601 soft-eyed1606 narrow-eyed1607 broad-eyed?1611 saucer-eyed1612 ox-eyed1621 pig-eyed1655 glare-eyed1683 pit-eyed1696 dove-eyed1717 laughing-eyed1784 almond1786 wide-eyed1789 moon-eyed1790 big-eyed1792 gooseberry-eyed1796 red-eyed1800 unsealed1800 screw-eyed1810 starry-eyed1818 pinkie-eyed1824 pop-eyed1830 bead-eyed1835 fishy-eyed1836 almond-eyed1849 boopic1854 sharp-set1865 bug-eyed1872 beady-eyed1873 bias-eyed1877 blank-eyed1881 gape-eyed1889 glass-eyed1889 stone-eyed1890 pie-eyed1900 slitty-eyed1908 steely-eyed1964 megalopic1985 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Gooseberry-eyed, one with dull grey eyes, like boiled gooseberries. gooseberry-louse n. = harvest-bug n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > family Trombidiidae > member of wheal-worm1648 harvest-bug1768 harvest-louse1775 gooseberry-louse1856 harvest-mite1874 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > family Tetranychidae > member of red spider1646 harvest-bug1768 harvest-louse1775 gooseberry-louse1856 red mite1871 harvest-mite1874 harvest-tick1886 1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 290 The new insect called ‘harvest bugs’, or ‘gooseberry lice’..imported in some American plants. gooseberry-moth n. the magpie-moth ( Abraxas grossulariata). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > abraxas grossulariata (magpie moth) magpie moth?1749 gooseberry-moth1816 currant-moth1858 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxvi. 452 The caterpillars of the gooseberry-moth. gooseberry-picker n. one who picks gooseberries, colloquial a chaperon (so gooseberry-picking n.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > one in charge of young person > female governoressc1422 governess?c1500 governante1637 gouvernante1667 duenna1709 chaperone1720 sheep-dog1847 gooseberry-picker1868 1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead ii. ix In his capacity of gooseberry-picker, Lord S. was led..into anything but pleasant pastures. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge III. xli. 128 He had a sort of ‘Don't mind me’ way with him that made him quite the perfection of a ‘gooseberry-picker’. gooseberry-pie n. (a) a pie made of gooseberries, etc.; (b) (see quot. 1879). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie vaunt1508 warden-pie1579 apple pie1589 gooseberry-pie1747 plum pie1747 huckleberry pie1751 apple dowdy1823 cobbler1859 lemon pie1909 lemon meringue1914 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 114 A Custard is very good with the Gooseberry Pye. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 66 Go help your mother to make the gooseberry-pie. 1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Gooseberry pie, Epilobium hirsutum L., from the smell of the leaves. gooseberry-season n. the time when gooseberries are ripe, esp. in big gooseberry season, the time of year when the newspapers have plenty of space to record trifles. ΚΠ 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 9 How to make up a good stout..dose of physic for your wife or servants, in the gooseberry season. gooseberry-wig n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > frizzled tête de mouton1737 gooseberry-wig1796 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Gooseberry wig, a large frizzled wig; perhaps, from a supposed likeness to a gooseberry bush. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530
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