Kipper

Meaning of Kipper

noun
  1. a kippered fish, especially a herring.
  2. a male salmon in the spawning season.
verb
  1. cure (a herring or other fish) by splitting it open and salting and drying it in the open air or in smoke.
    on the quayside fishwives gut fish by hand, and the catch is kippered by traditional methods

Old English cypera (in kipper1 (sense 2 of the noun)), of Germanic origin; related to Old Saxon kupiro, perhaps also to copper1.

noun

an Aboriginal youth who has been initiated into manhood.

from Dharuk gibara, from giba ‘a stone’ (because of its use in the ceremonial extraction of teeth).

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Hyphenation of Kipper

Kip-per

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • Kipper is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with Kipper

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