to kipper

Examples

• All

• Well, kippered herring!

  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

• Even the eel, when I looked at it later, was skimpy and half dried out, a pitiful item, more like kippered eel.

  Fiction book (1993)

• When they were walking along the road, one of these young German men let fall a piece of white bread into a sloppy and dirty place. He picked it up again immediately and put it in his mouth, eating it without scraping any of the dirt off the bread. Then, again on the landing stage, I saw an old woman selling kippered herrings to these Germans, which they ate with great relish without anything added and without cooking.

  Academic text (1993)

• The chef kippered the fish to enhance its flavor and preserve it.

• She decided to kipper the salmon as part of her culinary experiment.

Synonyms

C

to cure

vsto kipper

26 4.6

Preserve food, for example by drying or salting

is specifically the salting and smoking method rather than general preservation

D

to dun

vsto kipper

• Archaic

9.9

To keep meat or fish from spoiling by salting

uses both salting and smoking to preserve fish

Surface Forms

Etymology