kipper
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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
I haven't been yet done up like a kipper, have I?
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2017
Oatmeal cake was a tolerable idea, but the possibility of kipper cake made them gag.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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We learned that kippers is a whole herring that has been sliced in half, gutted, salted or pickled, then smoked and was once popular in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
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
But he writes that he misses the restaurant car, complete with soup, steak and kippers.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2013
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
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"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
I had walked far and was very tired, but I went to John MacNab's cottage, and, after I had eat my kippered herring and drank my tea, I felt better.
From Winter Evening Tales 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
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
“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
She 201 has seen the kippering done, ever since she wore ankle tights.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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