Word.ws English Dictionary

cat's meat

cat's meat noun: a person's lungs.

Noun

cat's meat (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A person's lungs.
    • You must let him have all the jaw-work to himself, and give a holiday to your cat's meat.1821, J. Burrowes, Life in St George's Fields

Origin of cat's meat

Animals' lungs used to be sold as food for cats.

Questions about cat's meat

What does cat's meat mean?
Cat's meat means a person's lungs.
What part of speech is cat's meat?
Cat's meat is a noun.

Words near cat's meat in the dictionary

  1. cat's ear
  2. cat's eye
  3. cat's eyes
  4. cat's game
  5. cat's love
  6. cat's meat
  7. cat's melodies
  8. cat's melody
  9. cat's meow
  10. cat's paw
  11. cat's paws

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cat's meat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cat's meat.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cat%27s_meat. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.