smoked herring

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   a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color

   Synonymsred herring

   Broaderherring

Questions about smoked herring

What does smoked herring mean?

smoked herring means "a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color".

What is another word for smoked herring?

Close synonyms include red herring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is smoked herring a common word?

smoked herring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.