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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

Taylor had chestnut hair, a kipper tie and a boy-next-door look.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2018

Ron gave no sign that he was aware of Percy, apart from stabbing pieces of kipper with unwonted venom.

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

Salmon, kippers and cream were also part of his deliveries and Rocky remembers seeing the joy on someone's face as he handed them a last-minute gift from a loved one.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

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

Take your kippers and top with large lumps of butter.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2015

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

“There’s half the deer you shot, beside the mutton, and plenty of kippered saumon.”

From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn

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

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

All the processes of gutting, curing, and kippering go on in grand style.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

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

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

“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


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