kippers

[kip-er]

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noun

a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking.

this method of curing fish.

a male salmon during or after the spawning season.

verb (used with object)

to cure (herring, salmon, etc.) by splitting, salting, drying and smoking.

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Kippers is always a great word to know.

So is quincunx. Does it mean:

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English kypre, Old English cypera spawning salmon, apparently derivative of cyperen of copper, i.e., copper-colored

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noun Australian Informal.

a young male Aborigine, usually 14 to 16 years old, who has recently undergone his tribal initiation rite.

Origin:
1835–45; < Wiradjuri gibirr man

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