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bloat·er 1

 (blō′tər)
n.
A large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted.
[From obsolete dialectal bloat, a soft, moist cured fish, probably from bloat.]

bloat·er 2

 (blō′tər)
n.
A small whitefish (Coregonus hoyi) of the Great Lakes and the lakes of eastern Canada.
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bloater

(ˈbləʊtə)
n
1. (Cookery) a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
2. slang Brit a fat or greedy person
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bloat•er

(ˈbloʊ tər)

n.
1. a herring or mackerel cured by being salted and briefly smoked and dried.
2. a freshwater cisco, Coregonus hoyi, found in the Great Lakes.
[1825–35; bloat (adj.) (see bloat) + -er1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bloater - large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smokedbloater - large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
herring - valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
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Translations

bloater

[ˈbləʊtəʳ] N → arenque m ahumado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bloater

n → Räucherhering m
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bloater

[ˈbləʊtəʳ] n (herring) → aringa affumicata; (mackerel) → sgombro affumicato
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When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me) and smelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailors walking about, and the carts jingling up and down over the stones, I felt that I had done so busy a place an injustice; and said as much to Peggotty, who heard my expressions of delight with great complacency, and told me it was well known (I suppose to those who had the good fortune to be born Bloaters) that Yarmouth was, upon the whole, the finest place in the universe.
But Peggotty said, with greater emphasis than usual, that we must take things as we found them, and that, for her part, she was proud to call herself a Yarmouth Bloater.
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Being roused in the morning at the appointed time, and roused with difficulty, after his late fatigues, Quilp instructed Tom Scott to make a fire in the yard of sundry pieces of old timber, and to prepare some coffee for breakfast; for the better furnishing of which repast he entrusted him with certain small moneys, to be expended in the purchase of hot rolls, butter, sugar, Yarmouth bloaters, and other articles of housekeeping; so that in a few minutes a savoury meal was smoking on the board.
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There were various sizes of fishlike tiddlers and bloaters once we finished.
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An excess concentration of C[O.sub.2] can cause hollow cavities in the flesh of the cucumber that constitute physical defects called bloaters. Both air and nitrogen purging have been suggested for use and implemented in commercial fermentation to remove C[O.sub.2] from the brine to minimize bloater damage.
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No, we are talking about the uptight Skinny Minnies who diet because of a misguided notion that they appear fashionable and gorgeous and about the bloaters who cram doughnuts into their gaping maws because they are gluttons and have no self-control.
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Adverts in a copy of the The Mining Journal of 1835 also caught Gareth's attention, such as that for Thorn's potted bloaters - smoked whole herring.
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CHRONIC BRONCHITIS EMPHYSEMA no (Blue bloaters) (pink puffers) 1 Mild Breathlessness Breathlessness with Pursed Lip Breathing 2 Productive Cough Underweight cachexia and muscle wasting 3 Central Cyanosis Use of accessory muscles of Respiration 4 Frequent infective Hyper-inflation with exacerbations increased total lung capacity 5 Often Overweight Well perfused with fairly normal blood gases 6 Cor pulmonale with right heart Late on set of respiratory Failure (Ankle edema, and heart failure Raised JVP) 7 Respiratory Failure Early Decrease in DLCO values 8 Nocturnal Hypoxia during sleep 9 Polycythemia 10 Normal or Increased DLCO values Fig.
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He was fond of bloaters for his tea, and afterwards would wipe the grease off his hands on his hair.
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