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单词 cats-meat
释义

cat's-meatn.

/ˈkatsmiːt/
Forms: 1500s cattes meate, 1600s cats meate, 1700s– cat's meat, 1800s– cats-meat, 1800s– cat's-meat, 1800s– catsmeat.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cat n.1, meat n.
Etymology: < the genitive of cat n.1 + meat n.
The flesh of horses, etc., prepared and sold by street dealers as food for domestic cats. Also attributive, as in cat's-meat-man.
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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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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