gooseberry bush

British  

noun

1. See gooseberry

2. used humorously in answering children's questions regarding their birth

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Example Sentences

Now it is entwined with my gooseberry bush, and once a week I rip out the wandering stems before their white blossoms turn into seedy berries.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2017

This year she is not planting anything new, just watering her perennials, like kales and her giant cape gooseberry bush.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2015

Her father recovered; Selma struggled on and one day her uncle discovered her poring over the Book of Revelation under a gooseberry bush.

From Time Magazine Archive

Luckily currants don't have thorns, for if it had been a gooseberry bush she would have plunged her bare arms in just the same.

From In the Mountains by Arnim, Elizabeth von

There they procure pots and pans from the pansy bed, a goose from the gooseberry bush, a chick from the chickweed, corn from the cornflower, and eat on a box from the boxwood hedge.

From Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by Goss, John