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herring

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/ˈhɛɹɪŋ/

Definition of herring

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
    “Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.”
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noun

  1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
    “Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.”
  2. Fish in the family Clupeidae.
  3. Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A ghost town in Sac County, Iowa, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States.

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Etymology

From Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring, from Proto-West Germanic *hāring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) + -ing, due to the similarity of their…

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From Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring, from Proto-West Germanic *hāring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) + -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”), Bavarian Haring (“herring”). Late Latin haringus (whence French hareng, etc.) is borrowed from Germanic.

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