gooseberry-picker
English
Noun
gooseberry-picker (plural gooseberry-pickers)
- (archaic, British slang) One who works on behalf of another person who takes the credit for the work.
- (archaic, British slang) A chaperone.
Hypernyms
- (one who works on another behalf): surrogate
Hyponyms
- (one who works on another behalf): ghost writer
References
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “gooseberry-picker”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 419.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry-picker”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 183–184.