poor-John (n.) Old form(s): poore Iohn, poore-Iohn
salted hake, dried fish
RJ I.i.30[Gregory to Sampson] 'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John
Tem II.ii.26[Trinculo to himself, of Caliban] a kind of not-of-the-newest poor-John
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