play gooseberry

== English == === Verb === play gooseberry (third-person singular simple present plays gooseberry, present participle playing gooseberry, simple past and past participle played gooseberry) (dated, UK slang) To be an unwanted third party accompanying two lovers, to serve as a chaperon. ==== Synonyms ==== do gooseberry ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== third wheel two's company, three's a crowd === References === Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “play gooseberry”, 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), “play gooseberry”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.