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kippered

/ ˈkɪpəd /

adjective

  1. (of fish, esp herring) having been cleaned, salted, and smoked
  2. slang.
    utterly defeated or outwitted


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At eight she has more tea, and generally a kippered herring, or a bit of cold mutton left from the noon dinner.

"Kippered or mouldy or pickled, I will smoke one of them on the day you return," said he.

Bismarck herring, or kippered herring, acts in the same way.

He packed a good supply of kippered salmon, and filled his pouch with kinni kinnick for smoking in his black stone pipe.

We had kippered all the big trout and very excellent they were later on, for no fish were to be had on the barrens.

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