kipper
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That game last year was rugby's equivalent of a slap across the face with a wet kipper.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2023
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
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
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
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
Topics such as "mother's midday meal" - herrings, kippers or a baked potato - and "putting your best face forward" - wearing lipstick, powder and a headscarf, were the norm.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2016
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
Soak slices of kippered salmon in olive-oil for several hours.
From How to Cook Fish by Myrtle Reed
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
“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
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
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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