gooseberry-grinder

English

Etymology

Noun

gooseberry-grinder (plural gooseberry-grinders)

  1. (archaic, British slang) The buttocks.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • ask Bogey, the gooseberry-grinder

References

  • Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 3, page 183
  • Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.
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