Mudcat Café message #770035

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Thread #50573 Message #770035
Posted By: Raedwulf
23-Aug-02 - 05:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: You Brits have gone too far
Subject: RE: BS: You Brits have gone too far

A Bloater is a salted & lightly smoked herring. Hence bloater paste is fish paste (much like pate, etc, only different... ;) ).
As to to cemetery (since someone sort of asked!), it derives via MidEng & Latin from the Greek for 'dormitory', itself derived from a word meaning 'put to sleep'. My OED is of the opinion that cemetery is more often used for a graveyard not attached to a church.