gooseberry tart

English

Etymology

UK circa 1860.

Noun

gooseberry tart (plural gooseberry tarts)

  1. A tart filled with gooseberries; a sort of gooseberry pie.
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Heart.

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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