do gooseberry

English

Verb

do gooseberry (third-person singular simple present does gooseberry, present participle doing gooseberry, simple past did gooseberry, past participle done gooseberry)

Synonym of play gooseberry

References

Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “do gooseberry”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 419.
John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “do gooseberry”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.

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