Kippered
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Kippered is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of kipper.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of kipper.
More Meanings
- Stiff and lacking vitality; stale.
- Worn out; tired.
Example Sentences
He was done for, you know . . . quite kippered . . . The General's words dinned in his brain.
Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago.
At first I thought perhaps my students were writing this kind of kippered prose because they were attempting scenes and subjects that they knew nothing about.
She was, at heart, as dry, as kippered, as intentionalist, and coldly selfconscious as the driest of Egyptian book-keepers in a great merchant firm at Corinth.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include herring, sickly, spunkish, slow, languishing, flaggy.
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