different between sardine vs kipper

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sardine (compare Spanish sardina, Italian sardina), Latin sardina; from Ancient Greek ??????? (sardín?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s???di?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s???din/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

sardine (plural sardines)

1. Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine Sardina pilchardus (syn. Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine Sardinops sagax (syn. Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
2. (obsolete) carnelian

   • And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

3. (figuratively) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.

Derived terms

• sardinelike
• sardiner

Translations

Verb

sardine (third-person singular simple present sardines, present participle sardining, simple past and past participle sardined)

1. to fish for sardines
2. to pack or cram together tightly.
   • 1986, The New Yorker - Volumen 62,

     Would it be unbearably elitist to suggest that they would be more enjoyable still if the director removed a row or two of chairs, instead of sardining as many listeners as possible into the intimate music room?

Anagrams

• Arnside, Draines, Draisen, derains, draines, indears, randies, reads in, sandier

Dutch

Alternative forms

• sardien

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sardeyne, sardayne, sardine, from Latin sardina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r?di.n?/, /s?r?din/
• Hyphenation: sar?di?ne
• Rhymes: -in?, -in

Noun

sardine f (plural sardines, diminutive sardinetje n)

1. sardine, fish of the family Clupeidae

Derived terms

• sardineblik

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sardyn, sardien

French

Etymology

From Latin sardina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?.din/

Noun

sardine f (plural sardines)

1. sardine, pilchard
   • 1788, Jean-Jacques_Barthélemy, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce

     Les sardines sont ailleurs l'aliment du peuple ; celles que nous prenons aux environs de Phalère mériteraient d'être servies à la table des dieux, surtout quand on ne les laisse qu'un instant dans l'huile.

     The pilchards taken in other countries are the food of the common people ; those we catch in the vicinity of Phalerum are worthly of the table of the gods, especially when left to steep only for a moment in boiling oil.

Further reading

• “sardine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dineras, dîneras, draines, radines, ranidés, rendais

Italian

Noun

sardine f

1. plural of sardina

Anagrams

• snidare, sniderà

Latin

Adjective

• sard?ne

Adjective

sard?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of sard?nus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

kipper (plural kippers)

1. A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
2. A male salmon after spawning.
3. (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
4. (Britain, naval slang) A torpedo.
   • 2009, Jean Hood, Submarine (page 197)

     'Fancy running the risk of getting a kipper [a torpedo] to go with his grub.'

Derived terms

• dead as a kipper
• kipper tie
• done up like a kipper
• stitched up like a kipper

Translations

Verb

kipper (third-person singular simple present kippers, present participle kippering, simple past and past participle kippered)

1. (cooking) 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 […]

Etymology 2

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

Noun

kipper (plural kippers)

1. (Britain, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).

Etymology 3

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.

Adjective

kipper (comparative more kipper, superlative most kipper)

1. (Britain, dialect) amorous
2. (Britain, dialect) lively; light-footed; nimble

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Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German schippere, cognate to English skipper. Dialectal "kippar" is loaned from a Scandinavian language. Compare Old Swedish skipari

Noun

kipper (genitive kipri, partitive kiprit)

1. skipper.
2. Head of a small ship.

Declension

References

• http://www.eki.ee/dict/ety/index.cgi?Q=kipper&F=M&C06=et