"kippered" meaning in English

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        "simple past and past participle of kipper"
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      "word": "kippered beef"
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      "form": "more kippered",
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      "form": "most kippered",
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          "ref": "1927, Ralph W. Pringle, Methods with Adolescents, page 253",
          "text": "Our writers of history have been aroused from “ their somnolent antiquarian busy-work on kippered events and are feeling the force of living ones and learning what it means to get in the study of the present inspiration and interest for assimilating a knowledge of the past.",
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        {
          "ref": "1963, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer - Volume 76",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Piers Brendon, Edward VIII",
          "text": "and he caused offence by banging the drums and beating the cymbals at a dance in Lucknow, and sitting at table beside pretty ingénues rather than kippered memsahibs of suitable seniority.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Emil Reich, Nights with the Gods",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Robert Baldwin Ross, Masques & Phases",
          "text": "Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Stiff and lacking vitality; stale."
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          "ref": "2012, Jessica Stirling, The Asking Price",
          "text": "Cigar clenched between his knuckles, Johnnie Whiteside patted Gordon's knee. 'How d'you feel, old spud?' 'Slightly kippered,' Gordon answered. 'Not too kippered?' said Eric.",
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          "ref": "2015, Leon Garfield, The Drummer Boy, page 85",
          "text": "He was done for, you know . . . quite kippered . . . The General's words dinned in his brain.",
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        "Worn out; tired."
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      "word": "kippered beef"
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      "form": "more kippered",
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          "text": "Our writers of history have been aroused from “ their somnolent antiquarian busy-work on kippered events and are feeling the force of living ones and learning what it means to get in the study of the present inspiration and interest for assimilating a knowledge of the past.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1963, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer - Volume 76",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Piers Brendon, Edward VIII",
          "text": "and he caused offence by banging the drums and beating the cymbals at a dance in Lucknow, and sitting at table beside pretty ingénues rather than kippered memsahibs of suitable seniority.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Emil Reich, Nights with the Gods",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Robert Baldwin Ross, Masques & Phases",
          "text": "Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Stiff and lacking vitality; stale."
      ],
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          "text": "Cigar clenched between his knuckles, Johnnie Whiteside patted Gordon's knee. 'How d'you feel, old spud?' 'Slightly kippered,' Gordon answered. 'Not too kippered?' said Eric.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "He was done for, you know . . . quite kippered . . . The General's words dinned in his brain.",
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        "Worn out; tired."
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