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Neats' Tongue
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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First Reading
George Mealor • Link
This is ox's tongue or in Pepys' case cow's as he mentons the udder.
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Neat [neat, Sax.] beeves, as oxen, heifers, cows, steers.
---Dictionarium Britannicum. N. Bailey, 1736.
Anthony • Link
And of course Shakespeare' s
GRATIANO
Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
In a neat’s tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
and
Falstaff: "'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish!"