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English
gooseberry fruit (Ribes uva-crispa )
Etymology
From goose + berry . It is possible that the first element was originally something related to the gros- of French groseille and/or the kruis- of Dutch kruisbes but has been altered by folk etymology .
Pronunciation
Noun
gooseberry (plural gooseberries )
A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa , related to the currant .
Synonym: ( UK informal ) goosegog
We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.
Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia , distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry ).
Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit , the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia
Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica ), emblic , amla .
Ceylon gooseberry , a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata ), an unusual cactus
Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida )
Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus ), a herb-like plant
star gooseberry
Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus )
Katuk (Sauropus androgynus ), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
Physalis angulata , also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana ), indigenous to South America
poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera )
( dated , British slang) A chaperone .
( chiefly British ) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
Synonyms: third wheel , fifth wheel
Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry .
( dated , British slang) A fool .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
( dated , British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale ; a hoax .
( dated , British slang, vulgar , usually in the plural ) A testicle .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:testicles
Derived terms
Translations
fruit
Abenaki: kôwakwimen
Afrikaans: appelliefie (af)
Arabic: عِنَب الثَعْلَب m ( ʕinab aṯ-ṯaʕlab )
Armenian: փշահաղարջ ( pʻšahaġarǰ )
Assamese: আমলখি ( amlokhi )
Azerbaijani: motmotu
Basque: arakatz
Belarusian: агрэст ( ahrest )
Bulgarian: цариградско грозде m ( carigradsko grozde )
Catalan: agrassó m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 醋栗 (zh) ( cùlì )
Cornish: growsen f
Cree: ᓵᐳᒥᐣ ( saapomin )
Czech: angrešt (cs) m
Danish: stikkelsbær n
Dutch: kruisbes (nl) f , klapbes (nl) , stekerbees
Esperanto: groso
Estonian: karusmari
Faroese: stikkulsber n
Finnish: karviaismarja (fi) , karviainen (fi)
French: groseille à maquereau (fr) f
Galician: grosella (gl) f
Georgian: ხურტკმელი ( xurṭḳmeli )
German: Stachelbeere (de) f
Gondi: please add this translation if you can
Greek: φραγκοστάφυλο (el) n ( fragkostáfylo )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: egres (hu) , piszke (hu) , köszméte (hu)
Icelandic: stikilsber n
Ido: grozelo (io)
Irish: spíonán m
Italian: uva spina f
Japanese: グーズベリー ( gūzuberī )
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: қарлыған ( qarlyğan ) , тұшала ( tūşala )
Kolami: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 까치밥 나무 ( kkachibap namu )
Kyrgyz: тикен жемиш ( tiken jemiş )
Latgalian: agrysta
Latvian: ērkšķoga (lv) f , krizdole f , stiķene f
Lithuanian: agrastas
Luxembourgish: Déck Kréischel f , Gréng Kréischel f
Macedonian: огрозд m ( ogrozd )
Malayalam: നെല്ലിക്ക (ml) ( nellikka )
Maltese: ċawsla f
Maori: kuihipere , kūpere
Marathi: आवळा ( āvḷā )
Mi'kmaq: gawaqtejg inan
Mohegan-Pequot: pasqatam
Mundari: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: kʼíníjíłʼahí
Nepali: अमला (ne) ( amlā )
Norman: grouaîsile f
Norwegian: stikkelsbær n
Bokmål: stikkelsbær n
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Ojibwe: zhaaboomin ( berry ) , zhaaboominagaawanzh ( plant )
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: Kjressbäa f
Polish: agrest (pl) m
Portuguese: groselha (pt) f
Romanian: agrișă (ro) f
Romansch: ivaspina f
Russian: крыжо́вник (ru) m ( kryžóvnik )
Santali: please add this translation if you can
Scots: groser
Serbo-Croatian: ogroz (sh) m , ogrozd (sh) m , kosmulja f
Slovak: egreš (sk) m
Slovene: kosmulja (sl) f
Sora: please add this translation if you can
Southern Altai: тожло ( tožlo )
Spanish: grosella (es) f
Squamish: t'em̓xw
Swahili: tunda bukini
Swedish: krusbär (sv) n , stickelbär (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠄꠃꠟꠣ ( eula )
Tagalog: agraso
Tajik: бектошӣ (tg) ( bektošī )
Tamil: நெல்லிக்காய் (ta) ( nellikkāy )
Telugu: ఉసిరి (te) ( usiri )
Turkish: bektaşi üzümü (tr)
Ukrainian: аґрус (uk) ( agrus )
Unami: shëwinkëlës
Urdu: روئیں دار پھل m ( roain dār phal )
Uzbek: krijovnik (uz)
Welsh: eirinen Fair f , gwsberen f
Yiddish: אַגרעס ( agres )
References
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 John S[tephen] Farmer ; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley , compilers (1893 ) “gooseberry ”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume III, Harrison and Sons ] , →OCLC , pages 182–184 .
^ Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland , compilers and editors (1889–1890 ) “gooseberry”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volumes I (A–K) , Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press , →OCLC , page 419 .