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   Kip·per

   /ˈkipər/

   

   noun

   • 1. a kippered fish, especially a herring.
   • 2. a male salmon in the spawning season.

   verb

   • 1. 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"

   Word Origin Old Englishcypera (in kipper1 (sense 2 of the noun)), of Germanic origin; related to Old Saxon kupiro, perhaps also to copper1.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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