kippered

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of kipper

adj

1. Stiff and lacking vitality; stale.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago.”

2. Worn out; tired.

   “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.”

   “He was done for, you know . . . quite kippered . . . The General's words dinned in his brain.”