kipper

My Dundonian mother is pretty competitive when it comes to our traditional Christmas games – no one flips a kipper further or faster.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2020

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

Britain's longest-serving Royal Mail postman has recalled hand-delivering turkeys, kippers and last-minute gifts for Christmas as his record 60 years comes to an end.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

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

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

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

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

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