Kipper Definition

kĭpər
kippers
noun
kippers
A male salmon or sea trout during or shortly after the spawning season.
Webster's New World
A kippered herring, salmon, etc.
Webster's New World

(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.

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Synonyms:
  • kippered herring
verb
kippers
To cure (herring, salmon, etc.) by cleaning, salting, and drying or smoking.
Webster's New World

(cooking) To prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.

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adjective

(UK, dialect) Amorous.

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(UK, dialect) Lively; light-footed; nimble.

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Other Word Forms of Kipper

Noun

Singular:
kipper
Plural:
kippers

Origin of Kipper

  • Middle English kipre a male salmon in the spawning season from Old English cypera probably from cyperen of copper from coper copper (because of the fish's color during the spawning season) copper1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Kipper Sentence Examples

  • A village famous for its smoked kipper, we spend our final night in a good quality country house hotel.

  • But on June 16th I had got up and had a shower, ate a kipper for breakfast and felt clear-headed and much better.

  • Eating in Winter food This month Nigel Slater serves up sausage and mash, kipper patties, and roast pumpkin.

  • That's a slap in the face by an extremely wet kipper, particularly from a ' naturopath ' .

  • This confirms the view that the Hebrew kipper, which appears to be a late word (specially employed in Ezek, and P.), originally had the meaning which belongs to the Aramaic viz.

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Words Starting With

KKIKIP

Words Ending With

RERPER

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