kipper
Meaning of kipper
- a kippered fish, especially a herring.
- a male salmon in the spawning season.
- 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).
Information about kipper
- The plural form of kipper is: kippers.
- Languages in which kipper is used:
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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
Translation of kipper
- French: fumer
- German: räuchern
- Spanish: ahumar
- Italian: affumicare
- Portuguese: fumar
Words that rhyme with kipper
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