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gooseberry_tart

gooseberry tart

English

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 9780710077615.