pepper

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UK /ˈpɛp.ə/ US /ˈpɛp.ɚ/

noun 5verb 5name 1

Collocations

(noun.) spice

ADJ

ground

I always keep ground pepper in my kitchen cabinet for cooking.

black, white | cayenne

VERB + PEPPER

add, put in/on, season sth with, sprinkle

She sprinkled black pepper over the roasted vegetables before serving them to her guests.

grind

PEPPER + NOUN

mill, pot, shaker

PHRASES

salt and pepper

The chef sprinkled salt and pepper over the roasted vegetables before serving them.

(noun.) vegetable

ADJ

bell, sweet | chilli, hot | green, red, yellow

stuffed

My grandmother made delicious stuffed peppers for dinner last night.

Definitions

noun

A plant of the family Piperaceae.

A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

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.

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".

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.

verb

To add pepper to.

To strike with something made up of small particles.

To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).

After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.

To add (something) at frequent intervals.

He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.

To beat or thrash.

I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me

name

A surname originating as an occupation for a seller of pepper.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant

peppercorn

noun — any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing

capsicum

verb — attack and bombard with or as if with missiles

pelt

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

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He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.

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[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 bee

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After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.

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He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.

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I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me

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Usage Notes

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