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Definition: Bloater |
BloaterNoun1. Large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Note: Bloater \Bloat"er\ (-[~e]r), noun. [See Bloat, Blote.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bloater |
| Specialty definitions using "bloater": Yarmouth Bloater. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Bloater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bloater" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the bloater | 4 |
bloater blue | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bloater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | harengë e tymosur. (various references) | |
Arabic | سمك الرنجة مدخن و مملح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осолена и опушена риба, пушена херинга (red herring). (various references) | |
Czech | uzenáè (kipper). (various references) | |
Danish | røget sild, koldrøget sild. (various references) | |
Dutch | bokking (red herring), strobokking, harderwijker. (various references) | |
Finnish | savusilli (kipper). (various references) | |
French | buckling, bouffi (bloated), hareng saur, craquelot. (various references) | |
German | Bückling (kipper), schwach gesalzener und geräucherter Hering. (various references) | |
Greek | καπνιστή ρέγγα (kipper). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעושן (fumigated, smoked, sooty), דג מעושן (fumade, kipper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | füstölt sós hering. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ikan boking. (various references) | |
Italian | aringa affumicata (kipper). (various references) | |
Manx | skeddan lieh-yaaghit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oaterblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | arenque defumado (soldier). (various references) | |
Romanian | scrumbie (mackerel), hering afumat. (various references) | |
Russian | франт (fop, Jack-a-dandy, Johnny, spark, toff), копченая селедка (kipper, Norfolk capon, red herring), копченая рыба, особ. сельдь. (various references) | |
Spanish | pescado ahumado (Finnan, smoked fish), arenque ahumado (kipper, red herring). (various references) | |
Swedish | rökt sill (kipper), böckling (fumade, smoked baltic herring). (various references) | |
Turkish | tütsülenmiş ringa balığı (kipper, red herring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | копчений оселедець. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cá trích muối hun khói. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bloater": bloaters. (additional references) | |
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"Bloater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biomatter, bloster, blouter, broater. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bloater" (pronounced 'Bloat"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: boatel, boater, bolter, borate, boreal, labret, lobate, oblate, rebato. | |
-2 letters: abler, abort, alert, alter, artel, baler, blare, blate, blear, bleat, bloat, boart, bolar, boral, botel, labor, later, lobar, oater, orate, ratel, roble, taber, table, tabor, taler, tolar. | |
-3 letters: abet, able, aero, aloe, alto, bale, bare, bate, bear, beat, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: balloter, bloaters, brocatel, laborite, portable, sortable, storable. | |
+2 letters: absoluter, astrolabe, balloters, betrothal, bracteole, brocatels, cabriolet, elaborate, laborites, liberator, portables, rotatable, storables, strobilae, tolerable, tolerably, trilobate, worktable. | |
+3 letters: abortively, astrolabes, bardolater, betrothals, blastoderm, blastomere, blastopore, bracteoles, brocatelle, cabriolets, celebrator, clofibrate, deportable, elaborated, elaborates, exportable, factorable, footballer, importable, liberation, liberators, lobsterman, obdurately, obliterate, orbiculate, outbrawled, overbrutal, portabella, portabello, profitable, promotable, reportable, restorable, roundtable, sailboater, softballer, worktables. | |
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