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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

It was a kipper – a smoked fish – wrapped in plastic.

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

He went to Dulwich College in London, where Ondaatje was nicknamed Kip – a reference to kipper grease.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2018

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

She said she had indulged a little, however, buying kippers at the grocery store and was considering buying a printer and a new chair for her desk.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

Fergus Henderson’s kippers A brace of kippers makes the perfect start to the day.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2015

That some people willingly eat kippers and eggs for breakfast is a fact that others may find hard to swallow.

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

But report has it that the lord of that manor has no great partiality for kippered salmon.

From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang

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

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

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

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

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

From Malcolm by George MacDonald


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