pepper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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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, Norwegian Bokmål pepper, Norwegian Nynorsk pepar, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.
Inflected forms:
form: peppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: peppers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peppering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peppered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peppered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: piper
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the family Piperaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
UK
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: 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
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A beating; a thrashing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.
[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.
gloss: A shotgun.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Chew beef like breakfast (Yum)
Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two)
Be feeding my area, peppers
Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers
gloss: To add pepper to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To strike with something made up of small particles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
gloss: To add (something) at frequent intervals.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.
gloss: To beat or thrash.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me
gloss: To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
pos: verb
gloss: To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
transitive
gloss: To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Related words: salt
Derived words: 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
pepper up
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