gooseberry tart

English

Etymology

UK circa 1860.

Noun

gooseberry tart (plural gooseberry tarts)

1. A tart filled with gooseberries; a sort of gooseberry pie.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Heart.

References

• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry tart”, 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.