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ˈgooseberry-ˈfool
[fool n.2]
1. A dish made of gooseberries stewed or scalded and pounded with cream.
1719D'Urfey Pills III. 9 A rich clouted Cream, or a Gooseberry-Fool. 1775Jekyll Corr. 30 May, I must thank you for the recipe to make gooseberry fool. 1886J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 70 A large dish of gooseberry-fool that was standing to cool.
Comb.1888Lady 25 Oct. 378 Gooseberry-fool-green velvet.
2. As a popular plant-name:
a. Willow-herb (Epilobium hirsutum), also called gooseberry-pie;
b. Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis).
1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xix. 257 The hairy sort [of French Willow]..vulgarly known by the name of Codlins and Cream, or Goosberry Fool, from the smell of the leaves. 1858Lady Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Fl. 72 Lung-wort, Cowslip of Jerusalem..Gooseberry-fool, Pulmonaria. |