ˈgooseberry-ˈfool
[fool n.2]
1. A dish made of gooseberries stewed or scalded and pounded with cream.
| 1719 D'Urfey Pills III. 9 A rich clouted Cream, or a Gooseberry-Fool. 1775 Jekyll Corr. 30 May, I must thank you for the recipe to make gooseberry fool. 1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 70 A large dish of gooseberry-fool that was standing to cool. |
| Comb. 1888 Lady 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).
| 1794 Martyn 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. 1858 Lady Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Fl. 72 Lung-wort, Cowslip of Jerusalem..Gooseberry-fool, Pulmonaria. |