pepper
see also: Pepper
Etymology
Pepper
Proper noun
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see also: Pepper
Etymology
From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indic - source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि.
Pronunciation Nounpepper
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
- (baseball) 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".
- (cryptography) 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.
- (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
- 1906, Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica, page 61:
- He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
- [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.
- (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
- (fruit of the capsicum)
- (spicy) chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper
- (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepper, capsicum
- French: poivrier
- German: Pfeffer, Pfefferstrauch
- Italian: peperone
- Portuguese: pimenta, pimenteiro
- Russian: пе́рец
- Spanish: pimentero
- French: (spicy) piment, (mild) poivron
- German: spicy Chili, mild Paprika, Paprikaschote
- Italian: (spicy) peperoncino, (mild) peperone
- Portuguese: pimento, pimentão
- Russian: пе́рец
- Spanish: pimiento, chile (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, México)
pepper (peppers, present participle peppering; simple past and past participle peppered)
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.
- (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
- French: poivrer, assaisonner de poivre
- German: pfeffern
- Italian: pepare, condire con pepe
- Portuguese: apimentar
- Russian: перчи́ть
- Portuguese: salpicar
- Spanish: acribillar
- French: ponctuer
Pepper
Proper noun
- Surname for a seller of pepper.
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