Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.211

"And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes . . . "—
*Romeo & Juliet, v. 1.*