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  • 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.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • 'And a more accomplished old woman never drank catlap,' said Maxwell, as he shut the door; 'the last word has him, speak it who will -- and yet because he is a whillywhaw body, and has a plausible tongue of his own, and is well enough connected, and especially because nobody could ever find out whether he is Whig or Tory, this is the third time they have made him provost!

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • You are at the age to like such catlap better than better stuff. '

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • You are at the age to like such catlap better than better stuff.’

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • ‘And a more accomplished old woman never drank catlap,’ said Maxwell, as he shut the door; ‘the last word has him, speak it who will — and yet because he is a whillywhaw body, and has a plausible tongue of his own, and is well enough connected, and especially because nobody could ever find out whether he is Whig or Tory, this is the third time they have made him provost! —

    Redgauntlet 2008

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  • A weak drink, fit only for cats to lap.

    July 30, 2007