单词 | poorjack |
释义 | poorjackn. Now rare (historical in later use). Fish, usually hake, salted and dried for food; a fish preserved in this way; = Poor John n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > dried fish stockfish1290 spalderlingc1340 titling1386 woke fish1386 salpa?1527 spelding1537 lobfish1538 bacalao1555 Poor John1589 buck-horn1602 poorjack1623 Jacka1625 spalding1776 speldring1802 Digby1829 klipfish1835 Bombay duck1850 scale-fish1856 skrae-fish1867 rockfish1876 katsuobushi1891 1623 R. Ffrethorne Let. 20 Mar. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1935) IV. 59 He would giue me some poore Jackes [to take] home with me wch Comforted mee more then pease, or water gruell. 1655 in Cal. State Papers: Amer. & W. Indies (1893) Addenda 93 Could have wished they had sent some flesh, poor-jack or stockfish. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 12 Feb. (1970) III. 28 This night I had a 100 poore Jack sent me by Mr. Adis. 1718 G. Jacob Lex Mercatoria 13 The Canary Merchants..export our Manufactures, as Kerseys, Bays, Serges, Perpetuana's, Norwich-Stuffs, Hats, Stockins, Haberdashers Ware, Iron and Tin wrought, great Quantities of Poor Jack, Pilchards [etc.]. 1775 R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Spain 267 Salt bacallào, which is like the fish called poor-jack. 1934 R. G. Lounsbury Brit. Fishery at Newfoundland 34 The greater part of the annual catch of ‘Poor John’ or ‘Poor Jack’ was sold to foreigners for shipment to southern Europe. 1975 J. L. Anderson Night of Silent Drums i. vi. 36 Breakfast this morning would have to be poorjack alone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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