Noun: peppercorn
| Singular | peppercorn |
| Plural | peppercorns |
Sample Sentences
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A 75 ¢ book must look 40 ¢ better to the distributor and wholesaler, because if one peppercorn of doubt that people will pay 75 ¢ for the book gets thrown into the distribution mill, the books may never leave their cartons […] [1961, Book Production Magazine, volumes 73-74, page 47:]
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peppercorn rent
Nouns inflected like peppercorn
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
Inherited from Middle English peper corn, peper-corn, pepercorn, from Old English piporcorn (“peppercorn”), corresponding to pepper + corn. Compare Dutch peperkorrel (“peppercorn”), German Pfefferkorn (“peppercorn”), Danish peberkorn (“peppercorn”), Swedish pepparkorn (“peppercorn”), Icelandic piparkorn (“peppercorn”). See: Middle English Nouns '
peper corn', Middle English Nouns '
peper corn', Old English Nouns '
piporcorn', German Nouns '
Pfefferkorn', Swedish Nouns '
pepparkorn'.