kipper

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  1. noun A male salmon or seatrout during or shortly after the spawning season.
  2. noun A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.
  3. transitive verb To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

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  • "Care for a kipper No, thank you," Justin replied. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • He followed her into the stuffy kipper-scented atmosphere and up the worn linoed stairs. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
  • Starting at the fishing harbour of Craster, where you can steel yourself for the walk ahead with a plate of locally smoked kipper, the route winds across Embleton Bay to reach Low Newton-by-the-Sea, a tiny cluster of stone fishermen's houses. —  Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
  • We have a phrase in England "done up like a kipper" —  RealClimate
  • He tole hotel-kipper: 'You giva me loom. —  Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories
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  1. 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.

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  1. Prob. from kip, n., + -er.
  2. from kipper, n.
  3. A dial. variant of chipper(?).
  4. Queensland Australian dialect.
 

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