kipper

adj

Etymology: Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.

1. lively; 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.”

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Short form of UKIP + -er, influenced by kipper, the type of fish.

1. A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).

verb

Etymology: From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.

1. To 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[…]”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. 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.”

5. 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.”

6. 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.”

   “(see title)”

7. 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.”