pepper
English


Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PEPPERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PEPPER peper, piper, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#PEPPERCategory:English terms derived from Old English#PEPPER piper, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#PEPPER *pipar, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PEPPER piper, from an Indo-AryanCategory:English terms derived from Indo-Aryan languages#PEPPER source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepulCategory:English doublets#PEPPER.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛp.ə/, [ˈpʰɛp.ə]Category:English 2-syllable words#PEPPERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PEPPER
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɛp.ɚ/, [ˈpʰɛp.ɚ], [ˈpʰɛp.ɹ̩]Category:English 2-syllable words#PEPPERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PEPPER
- Rhymes: -ɛpə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɛpə(ɹ)#PEPPERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛpə(ɹ)/2 syllables#PEPPER
- Hyphenation: pep‧per
Noun
pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)Category:English lemmas#PEPPERCategory:English nouns#PEPPERCategory:English uncountable nouns#PEPPERCategory:English countable nouns#PEPPERCategory:English countable nouns#PEPPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PEPPERCategory:Pages with entries#PEPPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PEPPER
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#PEPPER) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- (UKCategory:British English#PEPPER, USCategory:American English#PEPPER, IrelandCategory:Irish English#PEPPER and CanadaCategory:Canadian English#PEPPER) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
- Synonym: capsicum
- Hyponyms: (mild/nonspicy) bell pepper, capsicum, sweet pepper; (hot/spicy) chiliCategory:English links with manual fragments#PEPPER, chili pepper, hot pepper
- (baseballCategory:en:Baseball#PEPPER) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".Category:English terms with usage examples#PEPPER
- (cryptographyCategory:en:Cryptography#PEPPER) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
- (boxingCategory:en:Boxing#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) A beating; a thrashing.
- 1906, Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica, page 61:
- He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.Category:English terms with quotations#PEPPER
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.Category:English terms with quotations#PEPPER
- (MLECategory:Multicultural London English#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) A shotgun.
- 2017 January 17, “Kennington Where It Started”, Biz of Harlem Spartans (lyrics), 0:28:
- Chew beef like breakfast (Yum)Category:English terms with quotations#PEPPER
Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two)
Be feeding my area, peppers
- 2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 3:24:
- Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppersCategory:English terms with quotations#PEPPER
Derived terms
- alligator pepper
- Ashanti pepper
- banana pepper
- bell pepper
- bepepper
- betel pepper
- bird pepper
- black pepper
- black pepper snake
- Brazilian pepper tree
- California pepper tree
- cayenne pepper
- cherry pepper
- chile pepper
- chili pepper
- chilli pepper
- cone pepper
- conical pepper
- conic pepper
- Culpepper
- Espelette pepper
- ghost chili pepper
- ghost pepper
- green pepper
- Guinea pepper
- hot pepper
- Jamaica pepper
- Java pepper
- lemon pepper
- malagueta pepper
- mignonette pepper
- monk's pepper
- old man's pepper
- overpepper
- peppadew
- pepperade
- pepper and salt
- pepper-and-salt
- pepper ball
- pepperberry
- pepperbox
- pepperbush
- pepper cake
- peppercorn
- pepper disease
- pepper dulse
- pepperer
- pepperette
- pepper gas
- pepper-gas
- pepper gel
- pepper-gingerbread
- peppergrass
- peppering
- pepperish
- pepperita
- pepper Jack
- pepper jelly
- pepperless
- pepperlike
- pepper mill, peppermill
- peppermint
- pepper nut
- peppernut
- pepper-pot
- pepperpot
- pepper pot
- pepper roulette
- pepper sauce
- pepper shaker
- peppershaker
- peppershrike
- pepper-spray
- pepper spray
- pepper squash
- pepper steak
- peppertini
- pepper tree
- pepper vine
- pepper weevil
- pepperwood
- pepperwort
- Pepper X
- peppery
- peter pepper
- poor man's pepper
- rattan pepper
- red pepper
- salt-and-pepper
- salt and pepper
- salt and pepper chips
- salt-and-pepper doris
- Scotch bonnet pepper
- serrano pepper
- Sichuan pepper
- Spanish pepper
- sport pepper
- sweet pepper
- Szechuan pepper
- tabasco pepper
- tailed pepper
- topepo
- wallpepper
- water pepper
- white pepper
- yellow pepper
Descendants
Translations
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Verb
pepper (third-person singular simple present peppers, present participle peppering, simple past and past participle peppered)Category:English lemmas#PEPPERCategory:English verbs#PEPPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PEPPERCategory:Pages with entries#PEPPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PEPPER
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER) To add pepper to.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.Category:English terms with usage examples#PEPPER
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.Category:English terms with usage examples#PEPPER
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) To beat or thrash.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of meCategory:English terms with quotations#PEPPER
- (cryptographyCategory:en:Cryptography#PEPPER) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER, MLECategory:Multicultural London English#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Category:en:Peppers#PEPPERCategory:en:Piperales order plants#PEPPERCategory:en:Seasonings#PEPPERCategory:en:Spices#PEPPERMiddle English
Noun
pepperCategory:Middle English alternative forms#PEPPERCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#PEPPERCategory:Pages with entries#PEPPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PEPPER
- alternative form of peper
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse#PEPPER piparr.
Pronunciation
Noun
pepper m (definite singular pepperen)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#PEPPERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#PEPPERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#PEPPERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#PEPPERCategory:Pages with entries#PEPPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PEPPER
- pepper (spice)
Derived terms
See also
- pepar (Nynorsk)
References
- “pepper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
