| 单词 | cat's-meat-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmascat's-meat-man The flesh of horses, etc., prepared and sold by street dealers as food for domestic cats. Also attributive, as in cat's-meat-man. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > pet-food > cat food cat's-meat1592 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes Ep. Ded. sig. A4 We haue cattes meate and dogges meate inough for these mungrels. 1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iii. i. sig. F3 I will crie broome or cats meate in Palermo. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 861 I saw her pass with her cats-meat barrow. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin lvi A parcel of..dogs..following the catsmeat-man's barrow. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 348 Purveyor of cat's-meat to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs. < as lemmas |
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