catlap
/ˈkæt.læp/
catlap noun: a watery or thin drink (especially tea or milk); a non-alcoholic drink.
Noun
catlap (uncountable)
- A watery or thin drink (especially tea or milk); a non-alcoholic drink.
- 'I will leave you to yourselves, gentlemen,' said the provost, rising; 'when you have done with your crack, you will find me at my wife's tea-table.' ¶ 'And a more accomplished old woman never drank catlap,' said Maxwell, as he shut the door […]1824, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Redgauntlet
- "[…] You mustn't gobble, nor drink your beer too fast." ¶ "You are wrong, doctor; I never drink no beer: it costs." ¶ "Your catlap, then. […]"1864, Charles Reade, chapter XIV, in Very Hard Cash, page 75
Examples of catlap in a sentence
- I don't want your bread and scrape and catlap.1907, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, act II:
- Identifying tea as 'catlap' had a prevailing satirical currency in the mid-1780s.2015, Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World, London: Reaktion Books:
Forms of catlap
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Origin of catlap
From cat + lap.
Questions about catlap
- What does catlap mean?
- Catlap means a watery or thin drink (especially tea or milk); a non-alcoholic drink.
- How do you use catlap in a sentence?
- I don't want your bread and scrape and catlap.
- What part of speech is catlap?
- Catlap is a noun.
- How do you pronounce catlap?
- Catlap is pronounced /ˈkæt.læp/.
Words near catlap in the dictionary
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