gooseberry是什么意思_gooseberry怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

gooseberry: gooseberry: [16] Probably, when all is said and done, gooseberry is simply a compound of goose and berry. But no one has ever been able to explain satisfactorily why the gooseberry should have been named after the goose, and there has been no lack of alternative etymological suggestions for the word – notably that goose is an alteration of an old dialect word for the ‘gooseberry’, such as groser or gozell, borrowed ultimately from French groseille ‘gooseberry’.

The quaint alteration goosegog dates from at least the early 19th century. Play gooseberry ‘be an uncomfortably superfluous third person with two lovers’ also goes back to the early 19th century, and may have originated in the notion of a chaperone (ostensibly) occupying herself with picking gooseberries while the couple being chaperoned did what they were doing (gooseberry-picker was an early 19th-century term for a ‘chaperone’).
gooseberry (n.): type of thorny shrub with hairy fruit, cultivated in northern Europe, 1530s, with berry, but the first part is of uncertain origin; no part of the plant seems to suggest a goose. Watkins points to Old French grosele "gooseberry," which is from Germanic. Or perhaps from German Krausebeere or Kräuselbeere, related to Middle Dutch croesel "gooseberry," and to German kraus "crispy, curly" [Klein, etc.]. By either path it could be related to the Germanic group of words in kr-/cr- and meaning "to bend, curl; bent, crooked; rounded mass." Under this theory, gooseberry would be folk etymology. But OED editors find no reason to prefer this to a literal reading, because "the grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animals are so commonly inexplicable, that the want of appropriateness in the meaning affords no sufficient ground for assuming that the word is an etymological corruption."

As slang for a fool, 1719, perhaps an extended form of goose (n.) in this sense, or a play on gooseberry fool in the cookery sense. Gooseberry also meant "a chaperon" (1837) and "a marvelous tale." Old Gooseberry for "the Devil" is recorded from 1796. In euphemistic explanations of reproduction to children, babies sometimes were said to be found under a gooseberry bush.

词态变化

复数 gooseberries;

权威造句

1. Dave and Michelle invited me to go out with them but I don"t want to play gooseberry all evening.: 戴夫和米歇尔邀请我跟他们一起出去,不过我可不想整个晚上都当电灯泡.

2. Right and left of the path were first a bed of gooseberry - bushes.: 在小径的两旁,首先是栽着鹅莓丛的花坛.

3. I didn"t wish to play gooseberry, ie be the unwanted person.: 我可不想当不识趣的人.

4. Don"t rely on Smith, he"s as green as a gooseberry.: 不能依靠史密斯, 他少不更事.

5. You both going there is ok, I do not wanna play gooseberry.: 你们两个去好了, 我不想当电灯泡.

近反义词

play gooseberry 陪伴两个想单独在一起...

Chinese gooseberry 弥猴桃

old gooseberry 魔鬼

jump at something like a cock at a gooseberry 贪馋地扑过去...

play old gooseberry with 参照 goosebe...

like old gooseberry 猛烈地

leap at something like a cock at a gooseberry 贪馋地扑过去...

be gooseberry 硬夹在一对情侣中间...

gooseberry stone 钙铝榴石

cape gooseberry 灯笼果

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gooseberry stone 钙铝榴石

barbados gooseberry phr. 巴拉巴栗

play gooseberry 硬插在两个情侣之间

Chinese gooseberry 猕猴桃

gooseberry mildew 醋栗白粉病

cape gooseberry 灯笼果

chinese gooseberry 猕猴桃

ceylon gooseberry phr. 锡兰醋栗

gooseberry family phr. 茶藨子科

sea gooseberry phr. 海醋栗

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