Noun: pepper
| Singular | pepper |
| Plural | peppers |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1906, Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica, page 61:]
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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 been gone into and finished. [1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
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Chew beef like breakfast (Yum)
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Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two)
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Be feeding my area, peppers [2017 January 17, “Kennington Where It Started”, Biz of Harlem Spartans (lyrics), 0:28:]
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Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers [2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 3:24:]
Nouns inflected like pepper
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
peper', Old English Nouns '
piper', Latin Nouns '
piper', Dutch Nouns '
peper', German Nouns '
Pfeffer', Danish Nouns '
peber', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
pepper', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
pepar', Swedish Nouns '
peppar', Icelandic Nouns '
pipar'.
Verbs referencing "pepper"
Spanish Nouns
pebre, Russian Nouns
перец, Zulu Nouns
uphepha.