gooseberry pudding

== English == === Alternative forms === gooseberry pudden === Etymology === UK circa 1857. Based on a forced rhyme and dialectal pronunciation of pudding and woman. === Noun === gooseberry pudding (plural gooseberry puddings) A pudding made with gooseberries. (Cockney rhyming slang) A woman. (Cockney rhyming slang) A wife. === References === John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893), “gooseberry pudding”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 184. Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.