Meaning of poor-john | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small European fish, of inferior quality to the cod.
2. Salted and dried hake.

Equivalents

Examples

“Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare.”

“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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