kipper

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

hareng saur

fumer

saumon fumé

hareng fumé

kipper

Synonymes

smoked herring

bloater

kippered herring

smoke

cure

bloat

red herring

corn

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Traductions

aringa affumicata

Bückling

arenque ahumado

salmón ahumado

çiroz

geräucherter

Räucherlachs

καπνίζω

αλατίζω

κίπερ

καπνιστή ρέγγα

السلمون المدخّن

παστώνω

affumicare

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de ancien anglais: cypera

Hérité de ancien anglais: coper

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.