Old Gooseberry
English
Proper noun
Old Gooseberry
- (archaic, British slang) The Devil; Satan.
Synonyms
- Old Harry, Old Nick, Old Scratch
Derived terms
- play Old Gooseberry
References
- Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 3, page 183
- Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.