matjes herring

[ maht-yuhs ]

/ ˈmɑt yəs /

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noun

young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.

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Also called matjes.

Origin of matjes herring

Partial translation of Dutch maatjesharing; matjes-, earlier maetgens-, maeghdekins-, equivalent to maagdmaid + -kin-kin + -s's¹

Koenig makes a big deal out of this call and frames it as a massive red herring.
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Nevertheless, Brian Rogers, a McCain aide pushed back against UANI, calling the Rio Tinto-Iran connection “a red herring.”
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This can easily be mistaken for a kipper, the smoked herring that is on the breakfast menus of many British hotels.
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“All the recent notoriety is just an added bonus to the fact that we are doing what we love,” says Herring.
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“I feel like a lot of people missed it,” says Herring, despondently.
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During the other seasons there are other kinds of fish, but at that time it was the Herring season.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
He forgets, you see, that he possessed an unusual constitution, and the temperament of a Norwegian herring.
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The Judge inquired if that was the sole object of the plaintiff, or was it not rather baiting with a sprat to catch a herring?
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There are an extensive mackerel and herring fishery, and motor engineering works.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
But we have to discuss the red-herring, not of the artful politician, anxious to dodge his hearers, but of the breakfast-table.
East Anglia|J. Ewing Ritchie