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[devil]

I learnt today that the word 'kipper' may have Cypriot connotations!

The etymology is

Old English cypera, used once with leax salmon (LAX noun1) = Old Saxon kupiro, connected with COPPER noun1 & adjective, from the colour of the male salmon.

As one theory gives copper being named after the island (rather than vice versa), then kippers must originally have been a delicacy herefrom!!!

[devil]

Of course, there's another support for the hypothesis: many Cypriots like to kipper themselves with cigarette smoke

[cannedmoose]

Let's hope that the connotations don't come from the other associations of the word kipper.

In souther English slang, kipper means the following:

Unreliable person
Coward
Vagina