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A kipper is a herring — a silvery sea fish — that has been split, salted, and hung in smoke until it turns brown-gold and keeps. In Britain it is a famous breakfast: kippers with butter and toast, or with eggs. The smell is strong; the taste is salty and smoky. Shops often sell them in pairs. Though actually, the word started on a different fish: Old English cypera meant a male salmon, perhaps from the copper-brown colour (scholars are not sure). Another old idea ties it to kip, the hooked jaw of a breeding male salmon, from Middle English kippen 'to seize'; the OED doubts that one. In English now, if someone offers you a kipper, they mean the smoked herring. There is also a verb, to kipper, meaning to preserve fish this way.
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組成From Old English cypera, 'male salmon'. It may be related to Old English coper (the reddish-brown metal, our copper), from the colour — that is only a perhaps. Another idea links it to kip, the hooked jaw of a male salmon, from Middle English kippen 'to seize'; the OED doubts that one.
同家族的字
- kipperedthe describing / past form: fish that has been kippered
原始詞典資料24 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Kippername
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A surname.
Kippernoun
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cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismA type of fortune-telling cards.
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A supporter or member of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party).
kippernoun詞源 1/ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
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A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
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A male salmon after spawning.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- Kipper, I discovered, was airman's slang for a fishing boat. The chief function of this particular station was the escorting of convoys and fishing fleets, and the section which had the latter duty to perform was known as the ‘Kipper Patrol’.
- Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels.
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slanggovernmentmilitarynavalA torpedo.
- As she was only crawling along I aimed my first ‘kipper’ just a fraction ahead of her bows.
- I evaluate its firing power at eighteen torpedoes—I think kipper is a distressing piece of naval slang—in thirty minutes.
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slangAn Englishman who has moved to Australia.
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- An able seaman on a kipper warship called the Eagle.
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A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
- With these weapons the natives invest their young men at the age of from fourteen to sixteen years... These young men are then called kippers, and for the first time enjoy the privilege of taking an active part in the fight.
- Around us sat ‘Kippers’, i.e. ‘hobbledehoy blacks’.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsAn English person.
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A fool.
- Don't push so, 'Liza; you're a-knockin' my 'at off, yer silly kipper!'
- 'Marriage during the Emergency isn't for me. I think of Alyson Carew. But carrying on with another officer's wife, well, separated wife; won't it affect my career?' 'Don't be a silly kipper.'
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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A child or young person.
- Half-a-dozen dreadfully common young bicyclists were commenting on her discomfiture with delighted exclamations of ‘Giddy old Kipper’, ‘Sweet Seventeen’, ‘Cheero, Maudie—you'll win!’
- If you're enterprizing enough to climb one of the trees christened by usage ‘The Kipper's Tree’, which hardly needs to be translated into plainer terms.
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slangThe vagina.
kipperverb詞源 1/ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
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cookingfoodlifestyleTo prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis[…]
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To damage or treat with smoke.
- "Your own fault. Did you imagine I was going to live on a gasring, because you wouldn't have your chimney repaired?" Then Diva got a tenant in spite of the kippered bathroom, and moved to a dilapidated hovel close beside the railway line, which she got for half the rent which she received for her house.
- “When I was in 23 Squadron,” Mayo said,”we had a pilot who could blow smoke through his ears.” “That doesn't make him dotty,” Goss said. “It might have kippered his brains,” Jimmy Duncan suggested.
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To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- She was the daintiest and most exquisite little figure imaginable, never did she stir out of doors without layers of veil to protect her from the kippering effects of sun and wind, and she preserved untouched by unguents or “mess” the complexion of a girl, smooth and soft and unwrinkled.
- The beach was littered with palm-thatch umbrellas and half-naked, kippering bodies, and the Marina packed with seagoing craft of every description.
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To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
- No man should appear at his day's labors unless well kippered. May I kipper you, madam ”
- Come over and have a drink. […] I'm half kippered myself.
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To punish by spanking or caning.
- Where of old, with awful mysteries and diabolic din, They “kippered” adolescents in the presence of their kin
- He's liable to get himself kippered on something hairbrained.
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To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- As for Mr. Mowbray you must know that he is not only the chief plotter, inventor, and spreader abroad of all these base calumnies, but he did also, like a fool, vent before his going home, to one whom he though had not been my friend, that he had taken notes of all words spoken by me in Scotland, and that he would construct and relate them to the Marquis of Hamilton, and so kipper me at the King's hands, that I should have no more pension.
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To utterly defeat or humiliate.
- Were the missing crewmen kippered by a squid?
- while clearly holding a banana in front of the proposed kippering victim if he replied with a straight answer to the question then he had been "kippered", and the correct response of the kipperer was to adopt a dramatically pained expression and look away while exhaling heavily, usually following up with the phrase, "Ooh, kippered him a treat.
kipperadj詞源 1/ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
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fishinghobbieslifestyleOut of season.
- These were kipper salmon, and an acquaintance of mine living at Burton Rowbottom who was trolling for pike at Yoxall, near to King's Bromley, got a run, five years ago, and caught a beautiful salmon weighting 25 lbs.
- the milner of Brignall for that he doth usually keep in the back beck a fishlock in the river called Gill Beck, below his mill and the forebeck of another fishlock [sic] above the mill, whereby he taketh and destroyeth much fish, to wit —routs, at his pleasure, and taketh, etc. divers fish when they are kipper and out of season;
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Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
- Blades initiated a regeneration in modern British tailoring that from the mid-sixties began by flirting somewhat uneasily with the hippie style -- its most flamboyant exponent being Michael Fish, who opened premises in Piccadilly in 1966, introducing the kipper tie , Russian-style side-fastening tunics, see-through shirts and mini skirts for men.
- The trousers became more flared, the ties more kipper, and, the crowning glory (at least I thought so), was thatI was the first in my department to sport a pink shirt.
kippernoun詞源 2/ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
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informalA member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
kipperadj詞源 3/ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/
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dialectallively; chipper; nimble.
- Thus he goes on, from morn till eve, from season to season, year in and year out, semingly impervious to the weather, being altogether too kipper and grievous to be taken with anything worse than a ' snivelly cold . '
- There's others won't come up so kipper if they daon't easy orf a bit.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。