Old Gooseberry

== English == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Proper noun === Old Gooseberry (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.