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A bringer of bad luck. A person (either a sailor or a passenger) who carries a jinx, one whose presence on board brings bad luck and endangers the ship.
a) Used to describe an unpopular person with no friends. As in "See smelly joe over there on his own, what a Jonah", "piss-off Terry, you Jonah!" This use probably linked to the biblical story of 'Jonah and the Whale' when he spent a considerable amount of time on his own in a whale's belly. So he was probably quite smelly! b) Jonah's - (Michael) Jordan shoes
The "sea devil". The nickname is likely a corruption of "Devil Jones". Though, some say it is from the original term "Duffy" (ghost) of Jonah. The term was originally used in the 1700s by Daniel Defoe and Tobias Smollett.
Jonah is Australian rhyming slang for shark (Joan of Arc).
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The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)
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A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
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The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.
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