HERRING
NOUNS
► ALLIGATOR a herring → M19 sl.
► ATLANTIC RANGER a herring → 1883 Eng. sl.
► BALL a large and compact shoal of herrings → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CALIFORNIAN a red, hard-dried herring → c1850
► CAPON a red herring → c1640 sl.
► DIGBY CHICKEN a dried herring → Can. colloq.
► EYEBAIT a small herring → 1884 Amer. dial.
► HERRING-FARE a voyage to catch herrings → 1530 obs.
► KENNEBEC TURKEY a smoked herring; sometimes a mackerel → 1975 Amer. dial.
► LANK n. a lean creature; a spent herring → 1861 Sc.
► MAGISTRATE a red herring → 1895 Sc.
► MALE five hundred herrings → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MATIE an immature herring; a fat herring → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► OCEAN RAMBLER a herring; a sardine → 1961 UK sl.
► OLD SOLDIER a red herring → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OLDWIFE a herring → 1588 Amer. dial.
► PINCERS a herring → 1896 Amer. dial.
► PROTESTANT HERRING orig. applied to a bad or stale herring; anything of an inferior quality → Irish sl.
► QUIBLIN a small or inferior kind of herring → 1921 Sc.
► RED a smoked herring → 19C sl.
► SCAG putrid fish, esp. herrings → 1892 Sc.
► SILE young herring → 1769 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► TAUNTON TURKEY herring → 1817 Amer. dial.
► YARMOUTH CAPON a red-herring → a1661 obs.
► YAULIN ► YAWLING a young herring → 1758
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