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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Shotten Herring A lean spiritless creature, a Jack-o'-Lent, like a herring that has shot or ejected its spawn. Herrings gutted and dried are so called also. "Though they like shotten-herrings are to see, Yet such tall souldiers of their teeth they be, That two of them, like greedy cormorants, Devour more then sixe honest Protestants." Taylor's Workes, iii.5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SHOTTEN HERRING. A thin meagre fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Crosswords: SHOTTEN HERRING |
| English words defined with "SHOTTEN HERRING": Shotten. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "SHOTTEN HERRING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | изхабен човек, изтощен човек. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | mint a keszeg (as lean as a shotten herring). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ottenshay erringhay yumurtlamış ringa balığı. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-h-i-n-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-4 letters: greenhorns, henotheist, retentions, retightens, rhinestone, shortening, strengthen, threonines, tighteners. | |
-5 letters: enthrones, erigerons, goethites, greenhorn, heightens, heronries, inthrones, nitrogens, nontheist, northerns, northings, orneriest, renesting, reorients, resenting, resetting, reshoeing, resorting, restoring, retention, retesting, retighten, retorting, roentgens, shortener, stereoing, stringent, teethings, tenorites, tensioner, tentering, tethering, thereinto, thirteens, thorniest, threonine, threshing, tightener. | |
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