What's the difference between kipper and sipper?

Kipper


Definition:

  • (n.) A salmon after spawning.
  • (n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
  • (v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
  • (a.) Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
  • (2) "But it is true that I was poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury.
  • (3) Each week, as another Kipper gets done for some kind of insanity – a £3,000 restaurant bill in Margate?
  • (4) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
  • (5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
  • (6) "Oh, all that rubbish about Muriel being poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury," he scoffed.
  • (7) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
  • (8) She's appealing to the Kippers and the more extreme wing of her party, no matter what the consequences.
  • (9) My sister, who is a decade younger than me, suffers from it, too, and is often to be found picking over Whitehorn's advice about how useful the inhabitant of a bedsitter will find a jug - it can be used to make tea and coffee, or to cook kippers - or reading, for the ninth time, the author's warning that her recipe cooking times do not include 'the time it takes you to find the salt in the suitcase under the bed'.
  • (10) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
  • (11) I said that he resembled a kipper that had been smoked before it was dead, and Julie has blanked me since.
  • (12) None of these have made a dent in Ukip's support and those imagining one more "big push" on Europe will return the Kippers to the fold are deluding themselves.
  • (13) One of the greatest sources of anxiety among Labour backbenchers is the fear that immigration is mainly responsible for their leakage of votes to the Kippers.
  • (14) "I have said many, many times I wouldn't count any chickens", says Dorothy Baker, the 77-year-old retired teacher and grandmother-of-six who is part election generalissimo and part self-confessed mother hen to the "'Kippers" of Somerset.
  • (15) A source close to the company said: “Sports Direct looks forward to working with the management as a supportive shareholder.” Kipper Williams on Sports Direct Read more Earlier this year, his company took out a put option on shares in Debenhams , which gave it a 16.6% stake as Sports Direct negotiated a deal to manage sports goods areas within the department store chain.
  • (16) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
  • (17) Asked to explain the party's failure in London, Ukip's Suzanne Evans was asked if she agreed with the Kipper who had said the problem was that the capital was too full of the "cultured, educated and young".
  • (18) Two women laugh: “It’s only us tough old birds who can face the cold.” A man in a linen suit and panama hat sweeps past into the hotel, looking for all the world like Colonel Sanders; he’s by far the nattiest dressed of the Kippers who, on this showing, seem to be late-middle-aged women in bad anoraks.
  • (19) And before that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the unions, passengers and politicians about the prospect of higher fares and fewer trains and the general disaster of everything about Britain's railways since the day they stopped serving kippers for breakfast on the night sleeper to Aberdeen.
  • (20) Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Institute of World Affairs "Now he is president, I think we have to see whether Karzai has learned any lessons and whether he has the power and tools to govern in a different way.

Sipper


Definition:

  • (n.) One whi sips.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Six types of stoppers, each having different compositions, were cleaned with stainless-steel sipper tubes inserted into them and attached to polypropylene bottles filled with either deionized water (pH 4.5) or acidified-deionized water (pH 2.5).
  • (2) Eighteen enteral-fed male Sprague-Dawley rats had access to a standard hyperalimentation solution via a sipper tube ad libitum.
  • (3) Pine voles (Microtus pinetorum) were given sipper tubes containing saccharin solution, and after drinking, were injected with 0.15 M LiCl.
  • (4) We have worked tirelessly to share our gin of the highest quality with discerning sippers,” said Galsworthy.
  • (5) CFA was expressed in two-sipper tests, and during allogrooming of material from a cagemate's fur, but not during autogrooming.
  • (6) Also, in the absence of unique flavor cues, the rats learned to prefer, apparently based on somatosensory cues, the sipper tube that was paired with IG Polycose infusions.
  • (7) Subsequently, two-sipper tests were given to assure the presence of conditioned flavor avoidance (CFA), and then animals were presented with saccharin in carboxymethyl-cellulose on their own fur (autogrooming), or on the fur of cagemates (allogrooming).
  • (8) In contrast, only 1-3 days later when these animals are weaned, they strongly reject NaCl solutions from sipper tubes in favor of water.
  • (9) Group II received standard TPN solution orally from a bottle sipper and drank the solution ad libitum.

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