1833 J. Nyren Cricketers of My Time (1902) 96: Punch! — not your new Ponche à la Romaine, or Ponche à la Groseille, or your modern cat-lap milk punch — punch be-devilled, but good, unsophisticated John Bull stuff.at John Bull, adj.1
1833 J. Nyren Cricketers of My Time (1902) 96: Punch! — not your new Ponche à la Romaine, or Ponche à la Groseille, or your modern cat-lap milk punch — punch be-devilled, but good, unsophisticated John Bull stuff.at cat-lap (n.) under cat, n.1
1833 J. Nyren Cricketers of My Time (1902) 96: They could no more have pecked in that style than they could have flown, had the infernal black stream [...] which soddens the carcass of a Londoner, been the fertilizer of their clay.at peck, v.1