Kipling

American

[kip-ling] / ˈkɪp lɪŋ /

noun

(Joseph) Rudyard 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.

Kipling British

/ ˈkɪplɪŋ /

noun

( Joseph ) Rudyard (ˈrʌdjəd). 1865–1936, English poet, short-story writer, and novelist, born in India. His works include Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), Stalky and Co (1899), Kim (1901), and the Just So Stories (1902): Nobel prize for literature 1907

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Priestly is heard asking her colleague Nigel Kipling, played by Stanley Tucci.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

Rudyard Kipling was honored at a dinner at the club on April 2, 1898, where guests enjoyed beef fillet and lamb medallions alongside Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 1882 vintage, according to a menu preserved there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

He took it from Rudyard Kipling, I think.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Hovis, which was founded in 1890, was bought by Endless in 2020 from Premier Foods, which owns the Mr Kipling brand.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

Queenie said demurely, “Of course Kipling, of course Kim, when I was little. I prefer Orwell now.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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