pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛpə/
ipa: /ˈpɛpɚ/
rhymes: -ɛpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: peppers
form: piper
Etymology: From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan 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 peepul.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the family Piperaceae.
glosses: A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
synonyms: capsicum
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.
ref: 1906, Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica, page 61:
text: [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.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A beating; a thrashing.
examples: text: Chew beef like breakfast (Yum)
Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two)
Be feeding my area, peppers
ref: 2017 January 17, “Kennington Where It Started”, Biz of Harlem Spartans (lyrics), 0:28:
text: Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers
ref: 2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 3:24:
glosses: A shotgun.
Derived terms: 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
pepperpot
pepper pot
pepper-pot
pepper roulette
pepper sauce
peppershaker
pepper shaker
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
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