bloater

1. 1.

   large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked

   Broaderherring

Other forms of bloater

plural

bloaters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bloater

What does bloater mean?

bloater means "large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked".

How many syllables are in bloater?

bloater has 3 syllables and divides as blo-a-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.