Definitions
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- noun The gathering of
gooseberries .
Etymologies
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gooseberry + -ing
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Examples
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Grandma, being one of a bygone brigade, enforced the almost obsolete rule of a chaperon, and the two evils in this case being represented by Andrew and me, Dawn considered me the lesser, and installed me in the office known by the irreverent as "gooseberrying."
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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