lox (smoked salmon) from 1668??

[Douglas G. Wilson]

So the OED folks didn't know for sure what this "lox" was. Maybe "wool".
Maybe something else. Could be"salmon", maybe.

But what makes sense in the context? Assuming the "unwiped nocks" is
correctly interpreted as "shitty butts" or so, it's not obvious to me that
either wool or fish fits here. One wouldn't say "it smells like coffee, or
garlic". So maybe the intended sense of "lox" is neither fish nor wool.

What does the extended context call for? Would one expect that "lox" refers
to something with a foul odor along the lines of feces?

Would one expect locks = wool to have a foul odor?

-- Doug Wilson


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