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Poor-john   Listen
noun
Poor-john  n.  (Zool.) A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality. "Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare."





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... as chairman, had first presided over a meeting of the Board of Directors of Fish Palaces Limited, he went to the Princess and said: "If I bring with me 'an ancient and fish-like smell, a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John,' ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke


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