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gooseberry pudding

gooseberry pudding noun: a pudding made with gooseberries.

Noun

gooseberry pudding (plural gooseberry puddings)

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

Forms of gooseberry pudding

pluralgooseberry puddings
alternative formgooseberry pudden

Origin of gooseberry pudding

UK circa 1857. Based on a forced rhyme and dialectal pronunciation of pudding and woman.

Questions about gooseberry pudding

What does gooseberry pudding mean?
Gooseberry pudding means a pudding made with gooseberries.
What part of speech is gooseberry pudding?
Gooseberry pudding is a noun.
What is the plural of gooseberry pudding?
The plural of gooseberry pudding is gooseberry puddings.

Words near gooseberry pudding in the dictionary

  1. gooseberry garnet
  2. gooseberry gourd
  3. gooseberry gourds
  4. gooseberry lay
  5. gooseberry lays
  6. gooseberry pudding
  7. gooseberry puddings
  8. gooseberry rust
  9. gooseberry season
  10. gooseberry seasons
  11. gooseberry tart

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