lox (smoked salmon) from 1668??

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Aug 4 22:09:21 UTC 2006


While looking at nock n.1 sense 2 (cleft in the buttocks), I noticed
the following:

"1668 Cleveland's Old Gill ii, Her Breath smells like Lox, Or unwiped Nocks."

Is this lox n.2, a kind of smoked salmon, first citation 1941??

Joel

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