Kipper vs. Salmon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Kipper and Salmon
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Kipper
A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering woodchips (typically oak). In Britain, Ireland and some regions of North America, kippers are most commonly consumed for breakfast.
Salmon
Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. Other fish in the same family include trout, char, grayling, and whitefish.
Kipper
A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.
Salmon
A large edible fish that is a popular sporting fish, much prized for its pink flesh. Salmon mature in the sea but migrate to freshwater streams to spawn.
Kipper
To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
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Salmon
Any of a number of fishes resembling the salmon.
Kipper
A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
Salmon
A pale pink colour
Ceanothus-clad walls of salmon brick
Cotton checked throw in cream and salmon pink
Kipper
A male salmon after spawning.
Salmon
Any of various large salmonid food and game fishes of the genera Oncorhynchus and Salmo of northern waters, having pink or red flesh and characteristically swimming from salt to fresh water to spawn.
Kipper
A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
Salmon
The flesh of a salmon, used as food.
Kipper
A torpedo.
Salmon
A yellowish pink to light or reddish orange.
Kipper
An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
Salmon
One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
Grilled salmon
Salmon paté
Salmon steak
Kipper
(AU) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
Salmon
A meal or dish made from this fish.
Kipper
A fool.
Salmon
A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
Kipper
(affectionate) A child or young person.
Salmon
The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
Kipper
A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
Salmon
(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
Kipper
(cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
Salmon
Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
Kipper
(by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.
Salmon
To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
Kipper
To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
Salmon
Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.
Kipper
To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
Salmon
A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.
Kipper
To punish by spanking or caning.
Salmon
Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
Kipper
To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
Salmon
Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
Kipper
To utterly defeat or humiliate.
Salmon
A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho
Kipper
Out of season.
Salmon
Flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
Kipper
(of a tie) Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
Kipper
Lively; chipper; nimble.
Kipper
A salmon after spawning.
Kipper
A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; - so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
Kipper
To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
Kipper
Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.
Kipper
Salted and smoked herring
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