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Pepper
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- 1 A surname originating as an occupation for a seller of pepper.
- 1 A plant of the family Piperaceae. countable, uncountable
- 2 sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum wordnet
- 3 A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. uncountable
- 4 pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground wordnet
- 5 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. Canada, Ireland, UK, US, countable, uncountable
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- 6 any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers wordnet
- 7 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 countable, uncountable
"Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games"."
- 8 climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam wordnet
- 9 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. countable, uncountable
- 10 A beating; a thrashing. countable, slang, uncountable
"He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style."
- 11 A shotgun. Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable
"Chew beef like breakfast (Yum) Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two) Be feeding my area, peppers"
- 1 To add pepper to. transitive
- 2 attack and bombard with or as if with missiles wordnet
- 3 To strike with something made up of small particles. transitive
- 4 add pepper to wordnet
- 5 To cover with lots of (something made up of small things). transitive
"After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes."
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- 6 To add (something) at frequent intervals. transitive
"He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation."
- 7 To beat or thrash. slang, transitive
"I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me"
- 8 To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
- 9 To shoot (upon) with the dotty. Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive
- 10 To write accents or disambiguating marks in script. slang, transitive
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.
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.
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