kipper

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
2. A male salmon after spawning.
3. A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
4. (UK, slang) A torpedo.
5. (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
6. (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
7. A fool.
8. (endearing) A child or young person.
9. (UK, slang) The vagina.

Verb

1. To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
2. (broadly) To damage or treat with smoke.
3. To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
4. To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
5. To punish by spanking or caning.
6. To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
7. To utterly defeat or humiliate.

Adj

1. (especially) Out of season.
2. Very wide, shaped like a kipper.

Adj

lively; chipper; nimble.

Conceptes

arengada fumada

Sinònims

smoked herring

bloater

kippered herring

smoke

cure

bloat

red herring

corn

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Traduccions

aringa affumicata

hareng saur

çiroz

Bückling

arenque ahumado

salmón ahumado

Räucherlachs

καπνίζω

αλατίζω

κίπερ

καπνιστή ρέγγα

παστή ρέγγα

παστώνω

fumer

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès antic: cypera

Heretat de anglès antic: coper

Heretat de anglès mitjà: kippen

In summary

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.