Poor-john

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

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

  2. 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."

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

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