neat's tonguen.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 112 Silence is onely commendable In a neates togue dried. View more context for this quotation

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §350 Smoake preserveth Flesh; As we see in Bacon and Neats-Tongues.

1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle ii. 14 Bid him get a Bottle of Claret, and a Neats Tongue ready.

1720 Humourist 183 I had kept the Neat's Tongue..and every now and then I nibb'd a Bit on't.

1794 A. Thomas Newfoundland Jrnl. (1968) 191 The circumstance of giving a Dried Neat's Tongue to the Cook to boil before he showed it to his Master was fatal to the Servant's remaining in that situation.

1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) xviii. 289 Take a neat's tongue and boil it till tender.

1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) ii. 57 Some people like neat's tongues cured with the root.

1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iv. 111 The remains of a cold capon and a neat's tongue.

1886 Atlantic Monthly July 90 Much good victuals carried away, namely, a ham. a jug of cider. two neat's tongues, [etc.].

1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles liii. 435 Parallel to and preceding the sale of cattle on the hoof was the sale of salt beef, hides, and the skins of calves as well as neats' tongues.

1987 Financial Times 16 May (Weekend section) p. xvii Invited to Samuel Pepys' house to celebrate New Year's Day, you would have sat down to a buffet of oysters, a dish of neats' tongues, a dish of anchovies, wines of all sorts and Northdown ale.

1996 Observer 31 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 14/1 We read of epic quantities of beef, mutton.., neats' tongues, smelts, meat broth, blood pudding, [etc.].