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.

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 882571771, page 419.
Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 3, pages 183–184

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