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Aug 19, 2025

This week’s theme
A cat-alogue of words

This week’s words
pussophilist
catlap
philofelist

The Cat’s Lunch, 1812

Art: Marguerite Gérard

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(KAT-lap)

MEANING:

noun: A watery drink, especially weak tea or milk.

ETYMOLOGY:

From cat + lap (a liquid food), from Old English lapian. Earliest documented use: 1785.

USAGE:

“Tea -- bloody catlap. Better’n that cocoa in the stir, though.”
George Orwell; A Clergyman’s Daughter; Victor Gollancz; 1935.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)

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