gooseberry pudding
English
Alternative forms
- gooseberry pudden
Etymology
UK circa 1857. Based on a forced rhyme and dialectal pronunciation of pudding and woman.[1]
Noun
gooseberry pudding (plural gooseberry puddings)
- A pudding made with gooseberries.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A woman.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A wife.
References
- Franklyn, Julian (2013) A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, Routledge, →ISBN, page 71
- Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 3, page 184
- Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.