Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted.
- n. A small whitefish (Coregonus hoyi) of the Great Lakes and the lakes of eastern Canada.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An English name for a herring which has been steeped for a short time, slightly salted, and partially smoke-dried, but not split open.
Wiktionary
- n. UK A salted, and lightly smoked herring or mackerel.
- n. North America A freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes; the species Coregonus hoyi.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also
bloat herring .
WordNet 3.0
- n. large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
Etymologies
- From obsolete dialectal bloat, a soft, moist cured fish, probably from bloat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“bloater" -- and enabling him to carry out more vigorously his schemes of”
“Second Lieutenant E.W. C. Perry and his mechanic, H.E. Parfitt, of No. 3 Squadron, who were flying a B.E. 8 machine (familiarly known as a 'bloater'), crashed over the aerodrome at Amiens; the machine caught fire, and both were killed.”
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force
“For Alex Salmond, whose resemblance to a bloater in quite uncanny, this is the first step on a road which he hopes will lead him to his Nobel Peace Prize.”
“If you answered no to any of these, you might be facing a bloater.”
“You've got a bloater--a novel that has taken on a life of its own.”
“Diane, I can hear a director yelling, "Bloater, where's the bloater!”
“We thought of non-asthmatic, obstructive chronic lung disease as a spectrum with the prototypical blue bloater at one extreme and the pink puffer at the other with the plurality of patients falling in between having some feature of both.”
“One of the most amusing, concise and accurate summations of the bulimic bloater since Matthew Parris retired as a commons sketch writer. nadeem afzal”
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“Maybe to make her knockers look big, maybe because she’s a bit of a bloater”
“You get too much food over here, but I managed to even things out towards the end of the stay and not feel like a bloated, er, bloater really I wanted to say plutocrat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bloater’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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It's a Fish
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Insulting animals
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Herring
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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Maineisms
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Lessons of Wordie / Wordnik
Words and concepts I learned on Wordie, or happened upon as I roamed through dictionaries and websites seeking ammunition.
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Tweets
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hernesheir It's a fish. Jan 1, 2012
chained_bear "...the midshipmen's berth was rounding out their pease-pudding and pig's trotters with toasted bloaters, laid in at Valetta, and the smell eddying aft from the galley brought water to his mouth."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 265 Feb 14, 2008