kipper vs mull

kipper

verb
  • To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate. 

  • To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication. 

  • To punish by spanking or caning. 

  • To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble. 

  • To damage or treat with smoke. 

  • To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking. 

  • To utterly defeat or humiliate. 

noun
  • A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air. 

  • A child or young person. 

  • A torpedo. 

  • A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party). 

  • A male salmon after spawning. 

  • A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon. 

  • An Englishman who has moved to Australia. 

  • A fool. 

  • A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood. 

adj
  • lively; chipper; nimble. 

  • Out of season. 

  • Very wide, shaped like a kipper. 

mull

verb
  • To powder; to pulverize. 

  • To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. 

  • To dull or stupefy. 

  • To heat and spice something, such as wine. 

  • To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. 

  • To join two or more individual windows at mullions. 

noun
  • An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger. 

  • A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. 

  • dirt; rubbish 

  • A thin, soft muslin. 

  • A promontory. 

  • A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn. 

  • The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover. 

  • Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. 

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