pepper

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A plant of the family Piperaceae.
2. (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
3. (Canada, Ireland, UK, US, countable, uncountable) 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.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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
5. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, slang, uncountable) A beating; a thrashing.
7. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable) A shotgun.

Verb

1. (transitive) To add pepper to.
2. (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
3. (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
4. (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
5. (slang, transitive) To beat or thrash.
6. To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
7. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
8. (slang, transitive) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.

Synonyms

black pepper

peppercorn

paprika

capsicum

common pepper

pimento

pelt

chili pepper

white pepper

sweet pepper

chili

sprinkle

green pepper

Madagascar pepper

chilli

spices

spread

vegetable

cayenne pepper

red pepper

Piper nigrum

bell pepper

🫑

capsicum pepper plant

sow

season

shell

🐚

spatter

spice

spicy

strew

vivacity

zap

⚡

pepper plant

pepper-pot

Spanish pepper

kind of vegetable

habanero

repper-plant

though only a tiny thing

pepper vine

sweet pepper plant

chile pepper

angle

Jamaica pepper

barrage

bestrew

bomb

💣

bombard

chilie

chillies

Translations

poivre

Pfeffer

pimienta

pepe

pimenta

piment

peper

poivron

Paprika

πιπέρι

pimiento

poivrer

pebre

peperone

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɛpə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: peper

Inherited from Old English: piper

Cognate with Sanskrit: पिप्पलि

Cognate with Scots: pepar

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Pieper

Cognate with Western Frisian: piper

Cognate with Dutch: peper

Cognate with German: Pfeffer

Cognate with Danish: peber

Cognate with Swedish: peppar

Cognate with Icelandic: pipar

In summary

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.

Sentences

Fabian does not like pepper .