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poor-john

noun

Definitions

  1. A small European fish, of inferior quality to the cod.

    • Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare.

  2. Salted and dried hake.

    • What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or / alive? A fish: he smells like a fish: a very ancient and / fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John.
    • [I]f you ſcape vvith life, and take a fagot boat, and a bottle of Vſquebaugh, come home poore men, like a type of Theames Street ſtinking of pitch and poore Iohn.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA