groset Sc.
(ˈgrəʊzɪt)
Also 8–9 grozet, 9 grosert, grossart.
[f. groser, by addition of excrescent t, and subsequent omission of r.]
A gooseberry.
| 1786 Burns To a louse 26 Ye set your nose out As plump and gray as onie grozet. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet Let. xiii, Saunders lap at the proposition, like a cock at a grossart. 1890 J. Service Thir Notandums iii. 14 A chappin o' grozets. |
| attrib. 1821 Galt Annals Parish xxviii. (1895) 178 Many..had planted groset and berry bushes. 1823 Blackw. Mag. XIII. 367 His grozet eyes. 1895 Cumnock News 28 Jan. 5/7 Grozet Fair day. 1896 Crockett Grey Man xiv. 101 The garden..was full of groset bushes. |