Old Gooseberry
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old gooseberry — noun Usage: usually capitalized O&G : old nick … Useful english dictionary
Old Nick — noun (Judeo Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell • Syn: ↑Satan, ↑Devil, ↑Lucifer, ↑Beelzebub, ↑the Tempter, ↑Prince of Darkness • Derivationally related forms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Old Mill State Park — WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district … Wikipedia
gooseberry — ► NOUN (pl. gooseberries) 1) a round edible yellowish green berry with a hairy skin, growing on a thorny shrub. 2) Brit. informal a third person in the company of two lovers, who would prefer to be alone. ORIGIN the first element perhaps from… … English terms dictionary
play old gooseberry — phrasal dialect chiefly Britain : to play havoc … Useful english dictionary
Gooseberry — Taxobox name = Gooseberry image width = 250px image caption = Cultivated Eurasian gooseberry regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Saxifragales familia = Grossulariaceae genus = Ribes species = R. uva crispa… … Wikipedia
gooseberry — /goohs ber ee, beuh ree, goohz /, n., pl. gooseberries. 1. the edible, acid, globular, sometimes spiny fruit of certain prickly shrubs belonging to the genus Ribes, of the saxifrage family, esp. R. uva crispa (or R. grossularia). 2. a shrub… … Universalium
gooseberry — [16] Probably, when all is said and done, gooseberry is simply a compound of goose and berry. But no one has ever been able to explain satisfactorily why the gooseberry should have been named after the goose, and there has been no lack of… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
gooseberry — [16] Probably, when all is said and done, gooseberry is simply a compound of goose and berry. But no one has ever been able to explain satisfactorily why the gooseberry should have been named after the goose, and there has been no lack of… … Word origins
old — or auld is a prefix to numerous nicknames, or names for Nick1, the devil, who was liable to appear if you spoke about him directly: whence our expression talk of the devil, if a person about whom we have been speaking in his absence comes into … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
