surstromming

Fermented Baltic herring. Purported by some (but by no means all) Swedes to be a highly-prized delicacy. Asserted by everyone else to be rotten fish in a can.

My bro is in hospital after he tried to eat that can of surstromming. I hope he makes it!

surstromming by taupehat April 10, 2011

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Surstromming

A nearly rotten fishy/fish type delicacy that has fermented for at least six months and is usually packaged or sealed in a can and is often described as the smelliest food in the whole world.

Do NOT even smell Surstromming if you can't handle vomiting or at least gagging.

Surstromming by 0221SAM June 12, 2018

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surströmming

A very angy strömming

You: Hello strömming
Strömming:
Me: Dont mind him, hes just a surströmming

surströmming by Sjöko June 11, 2019

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Surströmming Taco

A bad, awfully foul smelling and rotten Va-jay-jay

“OMG I always thought it was the Garbage truck that smells awful, turns out it’s Makita and her unwashed Surströmming Taco. Can you tell her to close her legs because it’s making me sick”

Surströmming Taco by EMD F59PHI April 29, 2025

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Hate Sink

A person you hate intensely not because they deserve such hatred but because they serve as a focus for your general hatred. A healthy way to dispense with excess animosity.

Jake's not really that big an asshole. He just serves as my hate sink.

Hate Sink by The great prophet Zarquon August 7, 2016

Word of the Day on July 26, 2026

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funiosity

The art of being peculiar, but in an amusing fashion.

"Wow, look at that dog running on three legs"
- "Yeah, that sure is a funiosity"

funiosity by Supersonic Stevie November 23, 2007

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Toe Rag

A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.

1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.

Toe Rag by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016

Word of the Day on July 24, 2026

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