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Breakfast fish (for one who's still asleep?)
Answer for the clue "Breakfast fish (for one who's still asleep?) ", 6 letters:
kipper
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kippered "split" herring A kipper is a whole herring , a small, oily fish , that has been split into a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering woodchips (typically oak). In ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context UK dialect English) amorous 2 (context UK dialect English) lively; light-footed; nimble n. 1 A split, salted and smoked herring. 2 A salmon after spawning. 3 (context military RAF World War II code name English) A patrol to protect fishing boats ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cypera "male salmon," perhaps related to coper "reddish-brown metal" (see copper ), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip, name for the sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season, from Middle English kippen ...
Usage examples of kipper.
The kippers had of course been brought from home, but the perfectly fresh eggs, butter, cream and veal cutlets were from the island of Brazza itself and the new sack of true Mocha from a friendly Turkish ship encountered off the Bocche di Cattaro.
He opens it and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills.
Mistress White, but today we have kippers, a halesome parritch, and scones.
She was devouring Sylva with her eyes, with far more avidity than Sylva displayed in eating her kipper.
He opened the carrier to reveal a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, five sausages and a kipper.
The town smells of seaweed and breakfast all the way down from Bay View, where Mrs OgmorePritchard, in smock and turban, big-besomed to engage the dust, picks at her starchless bread and sips lemon-rind tea, to Bottom Cottage, where Mr Waldo, in bowler and bib, gobbles his bubble-and-squeak and kippers and swigs from the saucebottle.
James and Jason, would be as beautiful as Lord Kipper when they were his age, and that was saying something indeed since her dratted cousins had been so beautiful since early boyhood that her uncle Douglas and aunt Alex had been constantly bombarded with gifts from all the girls in the neighborhood, hoping to be noticed by the twins.
He opens it and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills.
Stalin turned back to his stove and removed a pan of kippers from under the grill.
Norweigan kippers, Oxford marmalade, coffee and Jack Daniels, which he now placed truculently in front of Vickers.
I entertained Gerald Greening in the morning room, where he ate copiously of kippers followed by eggs and bacon, all furnished by Dawson, forewarned.
Blended odours of bacon and kippered herrings filled the room--indeed, the house, for several breakfasts were in progress under the same roof.
It was then that the process really began that would lead to such dishes as lorne sausage shami kebab, rabbit masala, fruit pudding chaat, skink aloo, porridge tarka, shell pie aloo gobi, kipper bhoona, chips pea pulao, whelk poori and marmalade kulfi, and I think the world is a better place for all of them.
Not only do the chars talk constantly, but the cat has moved into the crypt and sidles up to everyone, making siren noises and begging for kippers.
Jordan had supervised the preparation of a gargantuan q English breakfast, fresh eggs and grilled gammon, salted kippers and tinned pork sausage, potted shrimps and bloater paste, with freshly-chumed yellow butter and hot scones.