Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Honey-blobs
subs. (Scots’).—Large, ripe, yellow gooseberries.
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1746. WALPOLE, To George Montagu, in Letters, 2 Aug., i., 144. As he returned to the Tower, he stopped the coach at Charing-cross to buy HONEY-BLOBS, as the Scotch call gooseberries.
