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Definition of Taplash
1. n. Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.
Definition of Taplash
1. Noun. (obsolete UK dialect) small beer of bad quality ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete UK dialect) the refuse or dregs of liquor ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Taplash
1. weak liquor [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taplash
Literary usage of Taplash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of by Samuel Pegge, Francis Grose (1814)
"The same as taplash, Swoop, the Preterit of Sweep. North. Swop, or Swap, to exchange.
... taplash, the last and weakest running of small- beer. North. ..."
2. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"If it be taplash, as you call it, it is of your own brewing, and is both the
first and last running of your brains." Bishop Parker, cit. Latham. TARRY, vb. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society, Kern County Historical Society, Queensland Palaeontographical Society, Kern County Museum (1890)
"If it be taplash, as you call it, it is of your own brewing, and is both the
first and last running of your brains." Bishop Parker, cit. Latham. TARRY. vb. ..."
4. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... taplash having served all offices, and being reduced to great poverty, desires
your vote fot singing-clerk of this parish.' Another has had lee children ..."
5. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"And well you know that a hale man might swill a pale * full of such like taplash -
and not become heady.—But how is this, mother, that you combine with my ..."
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