kype

Meaning

Noun

  • The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

Origin

  • From Scots kip ("something beaked or hooked"); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe ("point, tip"), German Kippe, both from Latin cippus.

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