Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A male salmon or seatrout during or shortly after the spawning season.
- n. A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.
- v. To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Hooked or beaked, as a spent salmon. See the quotation.
- n. The male salmon when spent after the spawning season.
- n. A salmon detained in fresh water.
- n. A kippered herring; a herring for kippering.
- To prepare or cure, as salmon, herring, etc., by cleansing them well, giving them several dry rubbings of pepper and salt, and then drying them, either in the open air or artificially, by means of the smoke of peat or juniper-berries.
- Sprightly; gay; light-footed.
- n. A young man who has been initiated and is classed with the men of his tribe. See bora.
Wiktionary
- n. A split, salted and smoked herring.
- n. military An RAF World War II code name for patrols to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- v. To prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.
- adj. UK, dialect amorous
- adj. UK, dialect lively; light-footed; nimble
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A salmon after spawning.
- n. Scot. A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
- v. To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- adj. Prov. Eng. Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. salted and smoked herring
Etymologies
- Middle English kipre, from Old English cypera, spawning male salmon, probably from cyperen, of copper, from coper, copper (because of the fish's color during the spawning season); see copper1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A kipper is a whole herring that has been split from tail to head, gutted, salted, and cold smoked.”
“Winter; but being stopt that course, or lost; grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable, and kipper, that is, to have a bony gristle, to grow (not unlike a Hauks beak) on one of his chaps, which hinders him from feeding, and then he pines and dies.”
“Only the first-years without older siblings were wearing our ties in this "kipper" style, which immediately marked us out as targets for ridicule.”
“We had to wear our ties "kipper" style for school photos.”
“At first they were hoping it was just the "kipper," the name London cabdrivers give the post-Christmas season, when business is slow because people are paying off their credit cards and taking it easy after the holidays.”
“It has been claimed his prison nickname was "kipper".”
“United Kingdom it is frequently smoked and grilled (a smoked herring is called a 'kipper').”
“kipper" has every girl in the gallery in a tittering ecstasy.”
“The Suffolk sky hangs low and heavy, and from time to time there is the smell on the air of smoking fish, like every day here is kipper day.”
“In my desk drawer, at any point, you will find many cans of sardines and kipper snacks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kipper’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Herring
herring, pickled herring, red herring, bloater, herring-buss, herring-fishery, herring pond, herring-pond, whitebait, herringbone, herring-bone, buss and 65 more...
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Salmon
All salmon all the time!
Also see asativium's excellent Salmon I am list.salmon, Salmon, Salmon of Knowledge, the Salmon of Lly..., chinook salmon, kipper, spent fish, foul fish, kelts, kelt, shedder, baggit and 70 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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Cold Comfort Farm
From the novel by Stella Gibbons
tyro, bustle, locust years, lambency, mere, berg, fen, bilious, cataclysm, flapdoodle, vulgar, serener and 98 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
grizzly, coho, roe, koyukon, chinook, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit and 221 more...
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Number 9 Dream
By David Mitchell
slag-heap, coracle, unsilt, aquiline, crispen, treatise, hippocampus, fortuitous, megalomania, malinger, dreck, escarpment and 97 more...
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nether's list
adroit, recrudescent, ecclesiastical, canaille, philologian, ignoble, dilettante, vicegerant, gilt, enfiladed, somnambulism, gamin and 215 more...
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funny
I don't know why (maybe it's their sounds?), but these words make me laugh.
snorkel, bummer, stupefy, smackdown, sultana, muppet, fisticuffs, bookmobile, pickle, kipper, fathead, desperado and 1 more...
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trout, trout, trout!
fish that are fun to say
trout, gar, walleye, mooneye, arctic char, sockeye salmon, chum, freshwater drum, three-spine stick..., eel, waccamaw killfish, shad and 22 more...
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Random as Possible
just be random
wombat, nargles, isn't it with a g, gnargles, gargle, rawr, lion, kipper, tea, english, no, it's nargles ..., moo and 68 more...
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