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gooseberry bushnoun1A thorny shrub that bears gooseberries: a gooseberry bush will grow to a height of five feet...- Up on the Yorkshire Moors, villagers are nursing their precious gooseberry bushes ahead of their annual gooseberry show on 7 August.
- Rows of gooseberry bushes now yield fruit for pies and jams.
- He feeds his gooseberry bushes with a secret nutrient recipe and monitors their progress round-the-clock.
1.1British Used, especially in answer to a child’s question, to refer to the place where newborn babies are found: according to my parents I was found under a gooseberry bush...- I am in no fit state to discuss anything more clinically realistic than babies dropping out of the sky and landing on marshmallow blankets under a gooseberry bush.
- There are no storks or gooseberry bushes but a cast of midwives, grave robbers, priests, and scientists in a tale of birth, sex and death that is guaranteed to intrigue.
- Do you mean how did you begin inside your mum's womb (echoes of our conversation about the stork and the gooseberry bush) or why did your mum decide to have a baby?
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