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

John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “Old Gooseberry”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.
Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.

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