kipper
1 of 2noun
kipper
2 of 2verb
transitive verb
Did you know?
An American visiting Scotland once reported to The New York Times that "a kipper is prepared by taking a herring fresh (no more than 24 hours out of the water), plump, oily (15 percent or more fat content is best), soaking it in a saltwater brine and smoking it slowly over a fire composed of oak chips." This process of creating a kipper (called kippering) goes back to at least the 18th century, but the word kipper dates all the way back to before the 12th century, when it was spelled cypera and was used specifically to mean "a spawning salmon." Cypera is related to the Old English word for copper (coper) and may have been suggested by the salmon's color.
Example Sentences
Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021 This is why, even as Brexiters like U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson bash regulations for everything from kippers to socks, the FCA still thinks everything’s peachy with the new rules on investment research. Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019 British kipper manufacturers, Johnson said, were having their costs unfairly pushed up by E.U. regulations. Billy Perrigo, Time, 24 July 2019 The fact that the rules governing kipper shipments are in fact set by the U.K., not the E.U., was also characteristic of the man now headed to 10 Downing Street, who has a long history of putting compelling narratives ahead of facts. Billy Perrigo, Time, 24 July 2019 Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 6 Nov. 2019 Word History
Noun
Middle English kypre, from Old English cypera; akin to Old English coper copper
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1773, in the meaning defined above