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[kip-er] / ˈkɪp ər /


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The meat has been described as tasting like a cross between kipper and steak or "salty goose" and, less flatteringly, as "rotten leather and fishy beef", external.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

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

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

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

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

To eat it, you fry it in a bit of oil, finish with butter, if you want to go the full hog, then serve with runny fried eggs and smoked fish – kippers or haddock.

From The Guardian Mar. 5, 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

She expressed a delight which she cannot be supposed to have felt at the sight of salmon, fried, cold, kippered; ham, eggs, fowl, farles of home-made bread, oat-cake, honey, jam, butter.

From The Northern Iron by George A. Birmingham

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

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 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

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




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