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)

  1. A pudding made with gooseberries.
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) A woman.
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang) A wife.

References
  1. 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.
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