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English
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Verb
play Old Gooseberry (third-person singular simple present plays Old Gooseberry, present participle playing Old Gooseberry, simple past and past participle played Old Gooseberry)
- (archaic, idiomatic, UK) To suddenly put a stop to a disturbance by force or threats.
- (archaic, idiomatic, UK) To play the devil; to make mischief.
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References
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Play Old Gooseberry”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- John S Farmer; W E Henley, compilers (1893) “play Old Gooseberry”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume III, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 183.
- Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.