gooseberry pudding
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]UK circa 1857. Based on a forced rhyme and dialectal pronunciation of pudding and woman.[1]
Noun
[edit]gooseberry pudding (plural gooseberry puddings)
- A pudding made with gooseberries.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A woman.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A wife.
References
[edit]- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry pudding”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 184.
- Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.