Definitions for Herring

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Herring her·ring

Spelling: [her-ing]

IPA: /ˈhɛr ɪŋ/

Herring is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in Herring (eghinrr).

Definitions for Herring

noun

1. an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the North Atlantic.
2. a similar fish, Clupea harengus pallasii, of the North Pacific.
3. any fish of the family Clupeidae, including herrings, shads, and sardines.
4. any of various fishes resembling the herring but of unrelated families.

Origin of Herring

before 900; Middle English hering, Old English hǣring; cognate with German Häring

Examples for Herring

The professor, who was a kind-hearted man, drew a herring across the scent.

Thus the common expression, 'As dead as a herring,' is due to them.

"He turned his herring yonder night when he left goodbye to the four of us," he said.

They hung around her like a passel of gulls around a herring boat.

“I feel like a lot of people missed it,” says herring, despondently.

You are as thin as a French herring, you know, with a yard and a half of throat.

In June 2006, herring dropped out of East Carolina University.

“All the recent notoriety is just an added bonus to the fact that we are doing what we love,” says herring.

In the interim, herring took a short break from the band to dabble in his side-project—rapping under the moniker Hemlock Ernst.

herring poured his mind, body, and soul into the song, and the audience ate up every second of it—especially Letterman.