| 释义 |
kipper
noun- someone with red hair IRELAND
- Who’s the focking kipper? He goes, “She happens to be part of an experiment I’m conducting,”...“My theory is, redheads who come from a whole family of redheads are invariably bet-down,” and we all go, “Agreed.” — Paul Howard, The Teenage Dirtbag Years, p. 16, 2001
- the vagina UK
- A cockney fellow-soldier, on reading of the birth of Siamese twins, 1954, exclaimed pityingly of the mother, "Poor cow! I bet that split ‘er old kipper". — Beale, 1984
- a Royal Navy sailor; hence, an English person AUSTRALIA, 1943
Derogatory; according to Michael Saclier of the Australian National University in 1973 “[I]t derives from the statistically proven similarity between the Englishman and his favourite breakfast food – both are spineless, two-faced and smell” (quoted in Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 96, 1975). - Wasn’t a bad bloke really, even though he was a kipper! — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 58, 1962
- a doss-house; a bed; anywhere to sleep UK, 1984
Used by down-and-outs.
▶ do up like a kipper
to ruin a person’s chances UK
A variation of KIPPERArthur winced and his eyes darkened with disappointment and anger. He muttered to himself, "He’s done me up like a kipper." — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 102, 1984 |