noun Download 🔗Share A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant. Examples : "We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year." fruit plant food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry. Examples : "My grandmother's garden has a bush of gooseberries, which she uses to make delicious jam. " fruit plant food biology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: Examples : "My neighbor calls the small, tart fruit on her bush a "gooseberry," but it's actually a jostaberry, another unrelated plant with similarly textured berries. " fruit plant Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (British slang) A chaperone. Examples : "The gooseberry at the school dance made sure everyone behaved themselves. " language word person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation. Examples : "Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry." person situation family Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (British slang) A fool. Examples : ""Don't be such a gooseberry; you'll never get anything done if you keep making silly mistakes like that." " person character language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax. Examples : "He told us a real gooseberry about finding a million dollars in the park; nobody believed him. " story language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (British slang, usually in the plural) A testicle. Examples : "He took a sharp intake of breath and clutched at his trousers, muttering about having kicked himself in the gooseberries. " body sex anatomy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
