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bloater

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bloat·er 1  (bltr)
n.
A large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted.
[From obsolete dialectal bloat, a soft, moist cured fish, probably from bloat.]
bloat·er 2  (bltr)
n.
A small whitefish (Coregonus hoyi) of the Great Lakes and the lakes of eastern Canada.
bloater [ˈbləʊtə]
n
1. (Cookery) a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
2. Brit slang a fat or greedy person
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bloater - large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
herring - valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Translations
bloater [ˈbləʊtəʳ] N → arenque m ahumado
bloater
n → Räucherhering m
bloater [ˈbləʊtəʳ] n (herring) → aringa affumicata; (mackerel) → sgombro affumicato
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Being roused in the morning at the appointed time, and roused with difficulty, after his late fatigues, Quilp instructed Tom Scott to make a fire in the yard of sundry pieces of old timber, and to prepare some coffee for breakfast; for the better furnishing of which repast he entrusted him with certain small moneys, to be expended in the purchase of hot rolls, butter, sugar, Yarmouth bloaters, and other articles of housekeeping; so that in a few minutes a savoury meal was smoking on the board.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
But Peggotty said, with greater emphasis than usual, that we must take things as we found them, and that, for her part, she was proud to call herself a Yarmouth Bloater.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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