Kipper vs. Smoked — What's the Difference?

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.

A mixture of gases and small suspended particles of soot or other solids, resulting from the burning of materials such as wood or coal.

A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.

A cloud of such gases and suspended particles.

To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

A vapor, mist, or fume that resembles this.

A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.

Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory

A male salmon after spawning.

The act of smoking a form of tobacco

A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.

The duration of this act.

A torpedo.

(Informal) Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette

An Englishman who has moved to Australia.

A substance used in warfare to produce a smokescreen.

(AU) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.

Something used to conceal or obscure.

A fool.

A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.

(affectionate) A child or young person.

(Baseball) Pitches thrown at high velocity; fast balls

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

To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe

(cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

To engage in smoking regularly or habitually

(by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.

To emit smoke or a smokelike substance

To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.

To emit smoke excessively

To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.

To go or proceed at high speed.

To punish by spanking or caning.

To play or perform energetically

To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.

To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example)

To utterly defeat or humiliate.

To do so regularly or habitually

Out of season.

To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.

(of a tie) Very wide, shaped like a kipper.

To fumigate (a house, for example).

Lively; chipper; nimble.

To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.

A salmon after spawning.

To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.

A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; - so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.

To kill; murder.

To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.

To defeat decisively, as in a competition.

Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

(Baseball) To throw (a pitch) at high velocity.

Salted and smoked herring

Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation.

Of glass, tinted.

Simple past tense and past participle of smoke

(used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured in wood smoke