noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A salted, and lightly smoked herring or mackerel. British
2. 2
   a fat person British, slang
3. 3
   large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked wordnet
4. 4
   A freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes (Coregonus hoyi). Canada, US
5. 5
   a greedy person British, slang

Synonyms

All synonyms

kieyewankerwanker

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bloat + -er, because they swell during preparation.

Etymology 2

From bloat + -er, in the sense of the person having a "bloated" appearance.

Related phrases

bloater pasteblue bloater

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