twice-laid
English
Noun
twice-laid (uncountable)
- (slang, nautical, archaic) A dish prepared from cold fish and potatoes.
- 1837, The Athenaeum (page 741)
- There should have been there a superb dish of twice-laid, only the rats had eaten up all the salt fish, and the Commodore and his friends had eaten up all the potatoes […]
- 1837, The Athenaeum (page 741)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary