English

Noun

gooseberry-picker ‎(plural gooseberry-pickers)

1. (archaic, British slang) One who works on behalf of someone else, who also takes the credit for that work.
2. (archaic, British slang) A chaperone.

Hyponyms

• (one who works on another behalf): ghost writer

Hypernyms

• (one who works on another behalf): surrogate

References

• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 1, page 419
• Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 3, pages 183–184