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Poor ˈJohn, ˈpoor-john
[f. poor a. + proper name John: cf. prec.]
1. A name for hake (or ? other fish) salted and dried for food; often a type of poor fare. ? Obs. exc. Hist.
c1585T. Cates Drake's Voy. W. Indies in Hakluyt's Voy. (1905) X. 100 In this ship was great store of dry Newland fish, commonly called with us Poore John. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. i. 37. a 1612 Harington Epigr. ii. l, Poore-Iohn, and Apple-pyes are all our fare. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 113 Two barrels of salt Fish, and 500 poor-Johns, which we have from New England. 1695Congreve Love for L. ii. vii, I warrant nou he'd rather eat a Pheasant, than a Piece of poor John. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 157 When cured it [the hake] is known by the name of Poor John. 1841Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) p. xlii, Salted cod, and hake or Poor John, had been in long esteem as Lenten food.
†b. Applied to a person. Obs.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet 29 It is your poore Johns, that with your painted consciences haue coloured the religion of diuers.
2. Name for some sea bird. ? Obs.
1775Dalrymple in Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 399 A. M. saw a bird like a booby, but shorter winged and necked, called by sailors, poor John. 1778Ibid. 404 Saw several poor Johns, some sheerwaters, and a young alcatrass. |