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English
Verb
play up Old Gooseberry (third-person singular simple present plays up Old Gooseberry, present participle playing up Old Gooseberry, simple past and past participle played up Old Gooseberry)
- Alternative form of play Old Gooseberry
1819 March, Thomas Moore, Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress, page 22:Sandy's the boy, if once to it they fall, / That will play up old gooseberry soon with them all.
References
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Play up 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 up 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.