kipper

That game last year was rugby's equivalent of a slap across the face with a wet kipper.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2023

He’s holding a kipper; he’s holding a potted plant.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2021

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

Oatmeal cake was a tolerable idea, but the possibility of kipper cake made them gag.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

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

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

He dined with us in the evening, and his enjoyment of our coffee, bread, kippered herring, and other canned goods was almost pathetic.

From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews

“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

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