Amorous vs Kipper - What's the difference?
amorous | kipper |
Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
Indicating love or sexual desire.
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Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
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(lb) Affected with love; in love; enamored.
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A split, salted and smoked herring.
A salmon after spawning.
(military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
(cooking) To prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.
* Charles Dickens
(UK, dialect) amorous
(UK, dialect) lively; light-footed; nimble
As adjectives the difference between amorous and kipper
is that amorous is inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment while kipper is (uk|dialect) amorous.As a noun kipper is
a split, salted and smoked herring.As a verb kipper is
(cooking) to prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.amorous
English
Alternative forms
* amourousAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
(inclined or having a propensity to love) loving; fond; affectionateReferences
* *kipper
English
(wikipedia kipper)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* kipper tieVerb
- There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Halliwell)