English
langue de chat
Langue de chat comes from French langue de chat ‘cat's tongue (biscuit)’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlangue de chat‘cat's tongue (biscuit)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1935same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlangue de chat‘cat's tongue (biscuit)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1935same form
Earliest quotation: 1935, Sophie Kerr, Twenty Years of Dinner Parties: “My grandmother would have been ashamed to have less…”
Every English word from French langue de chat
Today it means
noun Synonym of cat's tongue; small chocolate biscuit shaped like a the tongue of a cat.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French langue de chat / langue de chat