John Dory n.1
a dull, repetitous speaker or story-teller.
![]() | Epilogue Spoken by Heccate and Three Witches 42: Have we not seen, O whorson Rogue John Dory [...] Catch’d ten times o’re with old new dress’d Story]. | |
![]() | Works of Rochester (1721) 53: These will appear such Chits in Story, / ’Twill turn all Politicks to Jests / To be repeated like John Dory, / When Fiddlers sing at Feasts]. | ‘The Young Statesman’ in|
![]() | [trans.] ‘Something instead of an Epistle to the Reader’ in Cervantes Don Quixote n.p.: While our damn’d Hum-drum Dottrels, dull John Dory's, / But rather digg'd our Graves then wrought our Story’s. |