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
Ron gagged on a large piece of kipper.
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
It is said that Dr. Chalmers once entertained a distinguished guest from Switzerland, whom he asked if he would be helped to kippered salmon.
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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
All the processes of gutting, curing, and kippering go on in grand style.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
“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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
These fish were the last of the season, and were thus undergoing the process of kippering.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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