Meaning of pickle-herring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
   obsolete
2. A buffoon.
   obsolete

Examples

“'Tis a Gentleman heere. A plague o'these pickle herring: How now Sot.”

“The first who made the experiment⟳ was a merry-andrew, who was put⟳ into my hands by a neighbouring justice of peace, in order⟳ to reclaim him from that profligate kind of life. Poor Pickle-herring had not taken above one turn⟳ in it, when he came out of the cave, like⟳ a hermit from his cell, with a penitential look⟳ and a most rueful countenance.”

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