kipper.
A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
Meaning & usage
A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
A male salmon after spawning.
A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
A torpedo.
An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
An English person.
A fool.
A child or young person.
The vagina.
Where this word comes from
From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.
To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
To damage or treat with smoke.
To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
To punish by spanking or caning.
To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
To utterly defeat or humiliate.
Where this word comes from
From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.
Out of season.
Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
Where this word comes from
From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.
A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
Where this word comes from
Short form of UKIP + -er, influenced by kipper, the type of fish.
lively; chipper; nimble.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.
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