gooseberry

Meanings

Plural: gooseberries

Noun

• spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
• currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
• A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
• 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
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• star gooseberry
• Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• star gooseberry
• Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
• Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
• poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
• A chaperone.
• An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
• A fool.
• A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
• A testicle.

Synonyms

acorns, agates, alcatote, apples, apricots, arsehole, asshat, asshole, bags, ballocks, balls, bangers, bannocks, baws, bayard, bean bags, beans, berk, berries, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bollocks, bolls, bonehead, boys, bozo, brickhead, bubbles, buffoon, Charlie, cherries, chicken nuggets, chowderhead, chucklehead, chuckles, chump, clart, clockweights, clown, cobblers, cods, coin purse, cojones, crown jewels, cubes, cullions, der-brain, dill pickle, dim bulb, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, dullard, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, eggs, family jewels, fathead, fenderhead, fiddle, fifth wheel, fuckwit, fuzznut, geck, gig, giggle berries, gink, gonads, goober, goolies, gooseberries, gooseberry, gooseberry bush, goosegog, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, Homer Simpson, huevos, ignoramus, imbecile, Jacobs, jamoke, Jatz crackers, jawbreakers, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, klackers, knackers, knucklehead, lamb fries, lamebrain, loins, love spuds, mameluke (US (Italian-American), marbles, maroon, meathead, mong, moron, mug, muggins, mushhead, nadgers, nads (UK, nards, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, nuts, oaf, orchis, pebbles, pillock, pinhead, plonker, plums, pods, potatoes, prat, profiteroles, retard, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa, rocks, schmo, schmuck, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, slang), snapperhead, softhead, sot, spuds, stepchildren, stones, store, stupid, sucker, sweetmeats, swingers, taters, teabags, testes, testicles, tests, thickhead, third wheel, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, twat, twerp, twins, twit, US), wally, wantwit, watermelons, wazzock, yampy, yams, yarbles