cat-lap
English
Noun
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) Any very weak drink.
- 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register (volume 46, page 777)
- What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap?
- 1862, Vanity Fair (volume 5, issues 106-144, page 59)
- […] before he could presume to deliver an opinion upon the comparative merits of cat-lap and grog […]
- 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register (volume 46, page 777)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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