gooseberry pudding

noun

A pudding made with gooseberries.

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Meanings

noungooseberry pudding (plural gooseberry puddings)

plural gooseberry puddings · alternative gooseberry pudden

  1. A pudding made with gooseberries.
  2. CockneyslangA woman.
  3. CockneyslangA wife.

Origin

UK circa 1857. Based on a forced rhyme and dialectal pronunciation of pudding and woman.

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APA

gooseberry pudding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gooseberry%20pudding

MLA

“gooseberry pudding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gooseberry%20pudding. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gooseberry pudding,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gooseberry%20pudding.

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