gooseberry tart
English
Etymology
UK circa 1860.
Noun
gooseberry tart (plural gooseberry tarts)
- A tart filled with gooseberries; a sort of gooseberry pie.
- (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.