kipper
noun
[ ˈkɪpə ]
• a kippered fish, especially a herring.
• a male salmon in the spawning season.
kipper
verb
• 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"
Origin:
Old English cypera (in kipper1 (sense 2 of the noun)), of Germanic origin; related to Old Saxon kupiro, perhaps also to copper1.
kipper
noun
• an Aboriginal youth who has been initiated into manhood.
Origin:
from Dharuk gibara, from giba ‘a stone’ (because of its use in the ceremonial extraction of teeth).
