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matje

matje is the alternative form of maatje.

Meaning of maatje

Noun

maatje (plural maatjes)

  1. A fermented herring.
    • The maatje herrin' were very popular over in Germany. That was a very light cure with just a fine sprinkling o' salt.1987, David Butcher, Following the fishing

Forms of matje

pluralmatjes

Questions about matje

What is matje the alternative form of?
Matje is the alternative form of maatje.

Words near matje in the dictionary

  1. matis
  2. Matissean
  3. matitudinal
  4. Matiyaga
  5. Matiyasevich's theorem
  6. matje
  7. matjes
  8. matjes herring
  9. matjes herrings
  10. matka
  11. matkas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: matje (page history and authors); maatje (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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