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Webster 1913 Edition

Kipper

Kip′per

,
Noun.
[D.
kippen
to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf.
Kipe
.]
1.
(Zool.)
A salmon after spawning.
2.
A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; – so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
[Scot.]
Kipper time
,
the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden.
[Eng. & Scot.]

Kip′per

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Kippered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Kippering
.]
To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
“Kippered salmon.”
Dickens.

Kip′per

,
Adj.
Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Kipper

KIP'PER

,
Noun.
A term applied to a salmon, when unfit to be taken, and to the time when they are so considered.

Definition 2024

kipper

kipper

English

Kippered "split" herring.

Noun

kipper ‎(plural kippers)

  1. A split, salted and smoked herring.
  2. A salmon after spawning.
  3. (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
  4. (Britain, humorous, often with capital) A member of UKIP (UK Independence Party).

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

kipper ‎(third-person singular simple present kippers, present participle kippering, simple past and past participle kippered)

  1. (cooking) To prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.
    • Charles Dickens
      There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis […]

Adjective

kipper ‎(comparative more kipper, superlative most kipper)

  1. (Britain, dialect) amorous
  2. (Britain, dialect) lively; light-footed; nimble
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)


Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German schippere, cognate to English skipper. Dialectal "kippar" is loaned from a Scandinavian language. Compare Old Swedish skipari

Noun

kipper ‎(genitive kipri, partitive kiprit)

  1. skipper.
  2. Head of a small ship.

Declension

References

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)

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