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kipper
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kip·per  (kpr)
n.
1. A male salmon or seatrout during or shortly after the spawning season.
2. A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.
tr.v. kip·pered, kip·per·ing, kip·pers
To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

[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.]

kipper1
n
1. (Cookery) a fish, esp a herring, that has been cleaned, salted, and smoked
2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Angling) a male salmon during the spawning season
3. Austral archaic derogatory slang an Englishman
vb
(Cookery) (tr) to cure (a fish, esp a herring) by salting and smoking
[Old English cypera, perhaps from coper copper1; referring to its colour]

kipper2
n
a native Australian youth who has completed an initiation rite
[from a native Australian language]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.kipper - salted and smoked herringkipper - salted and smoked herring            
herring - valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Translations
kipper [ˈkɪpəʳ] Narenque m ahumado

kipper [ˈkɪpər] nhareng m fumé et salé

kipper
nRäucherhering m, → Bückling m

kipper [ˈkɪpəʳ] naringa affumicata

kipper
n kipper [ˈkipə]
a herring split down the back and smoked, used as food. gerookte haring سَمَكَة الرَّمْجه المُقَدَّده пушена херинга uzenáč kippers der Bückling καπνιστή ρέγγα arenque ahumado suitsuheeringas ماهی دودی savusilli hareng fumé et salé דָג-מָלוּחַ מְעוּשָׁן नमक युक्त मछली सुखाई या पकाई हुई u dimu sušeni sleđ (sózott és) füstölt hering haring asap reykt síld aringa affumicata くん製にしん 절여서 훈제한 청어 rūkyta silkė (uzšķērsta) žāvēta siļķe ikan salai gerookte/gedroogde haring kippers, røykt sild śledź wędzony arenque hering sărat şi afu­mat копчёная селёдка údenáč prekajen slanik usoljena haringa saltrökt sill ปลารมควัน (มักเป็นปลาเฮอริง) füme ringa balığı 燻鯡魚 копчений оселедець سکھائی ، بنائی گئی ہیرنگ مچھلی cá trích hun khói

kipper ذَكَر سمك السلمون uzenáč kippers Räucherfisch καπνιστή ρέγγα arenque ahumado savusilli kipper usoljena dimljena haringa aringa affumicata キッパー 훈제 청어 zoute haring røkt sild śledź wędzony arenque defumado, arenque fumado копченая селедка böckling ปลาคิปเปอร์ tuzlanıp tütsülenmiş ringa balığı cá trích muối hun khói 腌鱼


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His forensic kippering of greedy bankers on the treasury select committee is just one example of how Jim has used his local knowledge to great effect.
They flock to Spain for holidays after kippering themselves in tanning booths and order champagne on their flights to Alicante.
The Frears have rescued many aural histories, including the account of the life of a stallion walker who led a shire stallion from farm to farm to breed the horses for ploughing and a recording of a Scottish kippering girl who tells of her gruelling work in the 1870s and 1880s, following the herring fleet as it moved south each year from Aberdeen to Lowestoft.
 
 
 
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