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kipper

[kip-er] / ˈkɪp ər /


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He’s holding a kipper; he’s holding a potted plant.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2021

This kipper, he told his audience, came from a kipper smoker on the Isle of Man — an angry kipper smoker.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2019

In a speech last week to party members during his party leadership campaign, Johnson brandished a kipper fish and pointed to its freezer packaging to ridicule the absurdity of European Union regulation.

From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2019

I haven't been yet done up like a kipper, have I?

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2017

Ron gagged on a large piece of kipper.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

"Every culture has their own techniques to preserve fish, so we thought to take this kippers idea and turn it into a global gateway of ingredients."

From Salon ● May 12, 2023

Some lean toward continental fare, including Ye Landmark’s UK-based crisps ‘n’ kippers, Nordiska’s Scandinavian housewares and kitchen goods, and Marina Market’s aisles of imported licorice candy and Northern European beers, cheeses and meats.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021

If it’s imitation crab meat or nothing where you are, then I’d switch completely to smoked whitefish from the deli, or canned sardines and kippers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

Topics such as "mother's midday meal" - herrings, kippers or a baked potato - and "putting your best face forward" - wearing lipstick, powder and a headscarf, were the norm.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2016

Penelope looked around in a panic but saw only three children having a no-blinking contest by pretending to be kippers.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

"If this had happened then, I think we would have been kippered," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

Smoked fish that requires refrigeration, such as lox, nova-style, kippered, or jerky, is considered precarious for those who are pregnant because, like deli meat, it could be contaminated with listeria.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021

Drawing inspiration from Sephardic culture and Spanish cuisine, I'm making escabeche salmon, my take on kippered salmon.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2011

A schmaltzy piece of kippered salmon with some nice "belly" lox: my idea of breakfast.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2010

He found him busy in loading a small vessel with smoked geese and kippered fish, and he was apparently in a very great passion.

From Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

These fish were the last of the season, and were thus undergoing the process of kippering.

From Malcolm by George MacDonald

She hoped that her effort to take her mother’s place in the kippering shed would put a stop to the fisherwives’ opinion that she was “setting hersel’ up aboon them a’.”

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

She 201 has seen the kippering done, ever since she wore ankle tights.”

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

“I’ll not let that order slip through my fingers,” she cried, “I’m going to the kippering, and what I canna do, Christine can manage, following my say-so.”

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Then Norman went away, and Christine put back in its place the kippering suit, and took out her very prettiest selling suit.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr




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