gooseberry-grinder
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Noun[edit]
gooseberry-grinder (plural gooseberry-grinders)
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References[edit]
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry-grinder”, 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.