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a silver fish so loud it communicates by farting underwater.
means A small silvery saltwater fish that swims in vast schools and is a staple of fisheries, eaten fresh, smoked, salted, or pickled.
from From Old English 'hering,' shared with Old High German 'haring' and other Germanic relatives, pointing back to a common West Germanic root. Beyond that the trail goes cold: some have linked it to a word for 'gray' (for the fish's silvery sheen) or to 'army/host' (for the dense schools), but both are guesses, and the deeper origin is honestly unknown. The phrase 'red herring' comes later, from the strong-smelling smoked fish supposedly dragged across a trail to throw hounds off the scent.
- sound speech
- Talks via high-pitched bubbles from the anus
- red herring
- Smoked, dyed kippers spawned the misdirection idiom
- mega schools
- Swarms of billions span miles in the sea
- war fuel
- Salted herring fed medieval Europe through winters
- dutch craze
- Raw new-season haring eaten whole, tail-first
battle of the herrings — 1429 military engagement during hundred years' war where english forces protected herring supply convoy
kipper — smoked herring fish, traditional british breakfast food dating back to 14th century
herring gull — seabird (larus argentatus) found across northern hemisphere, population 4 million pairs