| 单词 |
cat-lap |
| 释义 |
cat-lap slang. or dial.|ˈkætlæp| [Cf. Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 288 ‘They'll take suggestion as the cat laps milk’.] Stuff fit for a cat to lap: contemptuously applied to tea or other weak drink.
1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Cat-Lap, tea, called also scandal broth. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xiii, We have tea and coffee aboard..You are at the age to like such catlap. 1865M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper xxvii. 282 The clerk only muttered, ‘Oh, d―n! nobody wants your catlap!’ |

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