Kipper vs. Herring

Kippernoun

A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.

Kippernoun

A male salmon after spawning.

Kippernoun

A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.

Kippernoun

A torpedo.

Kippernoun

A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).

Kipperverb

(cooking) To prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.

Kipperadjective

amorous

Kipperadjective

lively; light-footed; nimble

Kippernoun

A salmon after spawning.

Kippernoun

A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; - so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.

Kipperverb

To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.

Kipperadjective

Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

Kippernoun

salted and smoked herring

Kipper

A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering woodchips (typically oak). In Britain, Ireland and some regions of North America, kippers are most commonly consumed for breakfast.

Herringnoun

A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.

Herringnoun

Fish in the family Clupeidae.

Herringnoun

Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

Herringnoun

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.

Herringnoun

valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

Herringnoun

commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America.