gooseberry

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Noun

gooseberry (plural gooseberries)

1. A fruit closely related to the currant.

   We had a good haul of gooseberries from our tree this year.

2. Any of several other unrelated fruits, such as the Chinese gooseberry (kiwifruit) and the Indian gooseberry (amla).
3. (chiefly UK) an additional person that is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation

   Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.

Synonyms

• additional person: third wheel

Translations

fruit

Afrikaans: appelliefie (af) Albanian: person i tretë (sq) Basque: arakatz (eu) Bulgarian: цариградско грозде (bg) (tsarigradsko grozde) m. Catalan: agrassó m. Chinese: Mandarin: 醋栗 (cmn) (cùlì) Croatian: ogrozd (hr) m. Czech: angrešt (cs) m. Danish: stikkelsbær (da) n. Estonian: karusmari (et) Finnish: karviaismarja (fi), karviainen (fi) French: groseille à maquereau (fr) f. German: Stachelbeere (de) f. Hungarian: egres (hu) Ido: grozelo (io) Irish: spíonán (ga) m. Italian: uva spina f. Japanese: グーズベリー (ja) (gūzuberī) Korean: 까치밥 나무 (ko) (kkachibab namu)

Macedonian: огрозд (mk) (ógrozd) m. Malayalam: നെല്ലിക്ക (nellikka) Maltese: ċawsla f. Maori: kuihipere (mi) Navajo: kʼíníjíłʼahí Norwegian: stikkelsbær (no) n. Polish: agrest (pl) m. Portuguese: groselha (pt) f. Romanian: agrișă (ro) f. Russian: крыжовник (ru) (kryžóvnik) m. Scots: groser Serbian: ogroz m., ogrozd m., kosmulja f. Slovene: kosmulja (sl) f. Swahili: tunda bukini (sw) Swedish: krusbär (sv) n., stickelbär (sv) c. Tagalog: gusberi (tl) Thai: มะยม (th) (mayohm) n. Turkish: bektaşi üzümü (tr) Ukrainian: аґрус (uk) Vietnamese: đăng tin vịt (vi)

additional person

Finnish: kolmas pyörä (fi)