Meaning of catlap | Babel Free

Definitions

A watery or thin drink (especially tea or milk); a non-alcoholic drink.

derogatory, slang, uncountable

Examples

“'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 […]”

“"[…] You mustn't gobble, nor drink your beer too fast." ¶ "You are wrong, doctor; I never drink no beer: it costs." ¶ "Your catlap, then. […]"”

“I suppose you think I come here to beg from you, like this damaged lot here. Not me. I don't want your bread and scrape and catlap.”

“All European food in Burma is more or less disgusting—the bread is spongy stuff leavened with palm-toddy and tasting like a penny bun gone wrong, the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.”

“Identifying tea as 'catlap' had a prevailing satirical currency in the mid-1780s.”

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