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Definition of Gooseberry fool

Gooseberry fool
Gooseberry Goose"ber*ry, n.; pl. Gooseberries, [Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry, fr. OF. groisele, F. groseille, -- of German origin; cf. G. krausbeere, kr["a]uselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), D. kruisbes, kruisbezie (as if crossberry, fr. kruis cross; for kroesbes, kroesbezie, fr. kroes crisp), Sw. krusb["a]r (fr. krus, krusing, crisp). The first part of the word is perh. akin to E. curl. Cf. Grossular, a.] 1. (Bot.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. --Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. Gooseberry worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.

Meaning of Gooseberry fool from wikipedia

- A fool is an English dessert. Traditionally, fruit fool is made by folding puréed stewed fruit (classically gooseberries) into sweet custard. Modern fool...
- Gooseberry (/ˈɡuːsbɛri/ GOOSS-berr-ee or /ˈɡuːzbɛri/ GOOZ-berr-ee (American and northern British) or /ˈɡʊzbəri/ GUUZ-bər-ee (southern British)) is a common...
- Deeper'n'Ever Pie and Summer Strawberry Fizz to Abbey Trifle and Great Hall Gooseberry Fool. This book features numerous recipes for dishes mentioned in the Redwall...
- book provides a recipe for trifle, involving cream but no custard, a gooseberry fool, hot chocolate, and cheesecakes. Woolley's mince pies still contain...
- Conquest "Fools" by Van Halen, from the 1980 album Women and Children First Fruit fool, a dish made with cooked fruit such as gooseberries or bilberries...
- Oxfordshire. The Steam Pig (1971) The Caterpillar Cop (1972) The Gooseberry Fool (1974) Snake (1975) The Sunday Hangman (1977) The Blood of an Englishman...
- practical jokes and has a head like a huge gooseberry. First appeared in ‘Rupert and the Gooseberry Fool’. The Wizard of the Wind - head of the world’s...
- "Made My Baby Cry" (WEA) 2009: "Broken" (Parlophone Records) 2015: "You Fooled Me" (Lakes**** Records) Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man (WEA, 1996) Adventure...
- crumble, fruit cobbler, Eve's pudding, Dorset apple cake, baked apple, gooseberry fool, sticky toffee pudding, treacle tart, treacle sponge pudding (made...
- Tilsley "Is That the Way" - The Message "The Prowler" - Brian Bennet "Gooseberry Fool" - P. Wilsher "Slow Soul" - The Travellers "Electric Blue" - Danny...