silakka — meaning in English

English meaning

• gob noun A lump of a soft or sticky substance.
• herring noun A small, oily silver fish found in large schools in northern seas, widely eaten fresh, smoked, or pickled.
• pleb noun A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.

Senses

silakka is used for these senses in English:

• Baltic herring A subspecies of Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus membras), living in the Baltic Sea, smaller than Atlantic herring, with leaner flesh.
• gob (US, military, slang) A sailor. [from 20th c.]
• herring Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
• pleb (US, slang, usually, _, derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.

gob — full definition

1. noun A lump of a soft or sticky substance.
2. noun British informal: the mouth.
3. noun A large amount of something (usually "gobs of").

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