pepper

See also: Pepper

English

Peppercorns (2).
Peppers (capsicum).

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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

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

  1. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
  2. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#PEPPER) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
  3. (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
  4. (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
  5. (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.
  6. (boxingCategory:en:Boxing#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) A beating; a thrashing.
  7. (MLECategory:Multicultural London English#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) A shotgun.

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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

  1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER) To add pepper to.
  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER) To strike with something made up of small particles.
  3. (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
  4. (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
  5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) To beat or thrash.
  6. (cryptographyCategory:en:Cryptography#PEPPER) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
  7. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER, MLECategory:Multicultural London English#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
  8. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PEPPER, slangCategory:English slang#PEPPER) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.

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Category:en:Peppers#PEPPERCategory:en:Piperales order plants#PEPPERCategory:en:Seasonings#PEPPERCategory:en:Spices#PEPPER

Middle 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

  1. alternative form of peper

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse#PEPPER piparr.

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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

  1. pepper (spice)

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