snake tart

English

Noun

snake tart (plural snake tarts)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) An eel pie.
    • 1842, The New Monthly Magazine, page 351:
      Muffin-cap agreed to show him the spot upon condition he would treat him with a “snake-tart” at the Eel-pie-house hard by.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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