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white herring

white herring noun: a fresh or uncured herring.

Noun

white herring

  1. A fresh or uncured herring.

Questions about white herring

What does white herring mean?
White herring means a fresh or uncured herring.
What part of speech is white herring?
White herring is a noun.

Words near white herring in the dictionary

  1. white hawk
  2. white hawks
  3. white heat
  4. white heats
  5. white henbane
  6. white herring
  7. White Hills
  8. White Hmong
  9. white hog
  10. white hogs
  11. white hole

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