A castrated cock.
A Crail’s capon. A dried haddock.
A Severn capon. A sole.
A Yarmouth capon. A red herring.
⁂ We also sometimes hear of a Glasgow capon, a salt herring.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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