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.

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