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herring choker
noun- a person from New Brunswick or elsewhere in the Canadian Maritime Provinces US, 1899
- “We’ll go someplace, and you’ll get custard pie, and then you’ll cut the damned thing up and pour vinegar on the plate and let it all soak through the crust. I know you herring-chokers.” — George V. Higgins, The Judgment of Deke Hunter, p. 169, 1976
- A “herring-choker” is a Maritimer, especially from New Brunswick, where the rivers run thick with spring herring (alewives). — cbc4kids.ca, 15 June 2002
- a Scandanavian US, 1936
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 117, 1949
- Hear that herring chokers? You Norskis may need some supplements if you are eating the Standard American Diet. — Lendon Smith, Happiness is a Healthy Life, p. 89, 1992
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