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.
- passage-board
- passage boat
- passage-gallery
- passage grave
- passage hawk
- passage migrant
- passage money
- passage of (or at) arms
- passager
- passagere
- passage thermometer
- passageway
- passagework
- Passaic
- passalid
- Passamaquoddy
- Passamaquoddy Bay
- passament
- passamezzo
- passant
- passarado
- passaree
- passarelle
- passata
- passatempo