Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pepper
Participle: peppered
Gerund: peppering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pepper |
| you | pepper |
| he;she;it | peppers |
| we | pepper |
| you | pepper |
| they | pepper |
Perfect
| I | have peppered |
| you | have peppered |
| he;she;it | has peppered |
| we | have peppered |
| you | have peppered |
| they | have peppered |
Past
| I | peppered |
| you | peppered |
| he;she;it | peppered |
| we | peppered |
| you | peppered |
| they | peppered |
Pluperfect
| I | had peppered |
| you | had peppered |
| he;she;it | had peppered |
| we | had peppered |
| you | had peppered |
| they | had peppered |
Future
| I | will pepper |
| you | will pepper |
| he;she;it | will pepper |
| we | will pepper |
| you | will pepper |
| they | will pepper |
Future Perfect
| I | will have peppered |
| you | will have peppered |
| he;she;it | will have peppered |
| we | will have peppered |
| you | will have peppered |
| they | will have peppered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pepper |
| you | pepper |
| he;she;it | pepper |
| we | pepper |
| you | pepper |
| they | pepper |
Perfect
| I | have peppered |
| you | have peppered |
| he;she;it | have peppered |
| we | have peppered |
| you | have peppered |
| they | have peppered |
Imperfect
| I | peppered |
| you | peppered |
| he;she;it | peppered |
| we | peppered |
| you | peppered |
| they | peppered |
Pluperfect
| I | had peppered |
| you | had peppered |
| he;she;it | had peppered |
| we | had peppered |
| you | had peppered |
| they | had peppered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pepper |
| you | would pepper |
| he;she;it | would pepper |
| we | would pepper |
| you | would pepper |
| they | would pepper |
Perfect
| I | would have peppered |
| you | would have peppered |
| he;she;it | would have peppered |
| we | would have peppered |
| you | would have peppered |
| they | would have peppered |
Imperative
| you | pepper |
| we | Let's pepper |
| you | pepper |
Verbs conjugated like 'pepper'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pepper'
bepepper,
copper,
kipper,
lapper,
lopper,
nipper,
pamper,
paper,
peepe,
peer,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E. pipor, from an early W.Gmc. borrowing of L. piper, from Gk. piperi, probably (via Persian) from Middle Indic pippari, from Skt. pippali "long pepper." The L. word is the source of Ger. Pfeffer, It. pepe, Fr. poivre, O.C.S. pipru, Lith. pipiras, O.Ir. piobhar, Welsh pybyr, etc. Application to fruits of the capsicum family (unrelated, originally native of tropical America) is 16c. The verb meaning "to sprinkle as with pepper" is from 1612. Peppermint is first attested 1696.
2. 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.
Sample Sentences
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Wherever religion is resorted to, as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull monotonous round of home, those of its ministers who pepper the highest will be the surest to please. They who strew the Eternal Path with the greatest amount of brimstone, and who most ruthlessly tread down the flowers and leaves that grow by the wayside, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)