Old Gooseberry

English

Proper noun

Old Gooseberry

1. (archaic, British slang) The Devil; Satan.

Synonyms

• Old Harry, Old Nick, Old Scratch

Derived terms

• play Old Gooseberry

References

• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “Old Gooseberry”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.
• Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.