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. 1869, Susannah M. Saurin (plaintiff.), Extraordinary Trial by a Sister of Mercy: Saurin Versus Starr (page 78) The Solicitor-General: I understand that a gooseberry-picker is the person who stands by whilst a young man and young woman are making love (laughter). ==== 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. John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary