matjes herring
/ˈmatjəs ˈhɛrɪŋ/(also maatjes herring)
noun
= mattie.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in ‘Nathanael West’ (1903–1940), author (real name Nathan Weinstein). From Yiddish matyes-hering and its etymons German Matjeshering and Dutch maatjesharing, with second element remodelled after herring.
- recognitive
- recognitor
- recognizability
- recognizable
- recognizably
- recognizance
- Recognizance Rolls
- recognizant
- recognizate
- recognization
- recognize
- recognizee
- recognizer
- recognizingly
- recognizor
- recognosce
- recohabitation
- recoil
- recoil action
- recoil energy
- recoiler
- twister
- twist-grip
- twist in the wind
- twist-lock