Noun: pepperoni
| Singular | pepperoni |
| Plural | pepperonis; pepperoni |
Sample Sentences
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He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage. [2006, George Galjan, Cops, Donuts, and Murder, page 107:]
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She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.) [2019 May 9, Aisha Harris, “‘Jinn’ Review: A Not So Typical Coming-of-Age Story”, in The New York Times:]
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Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.
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There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice. [2023 June 9, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023:]
Nouns inflected like pepperoni
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian peperoni (“bell peppers”), the plural of peperone (“bell pepper”).
Verbs referencing "pepperoni"
Finnish Nouns
pepperoni, French Nouns
pepperoni, Icelandic Nouns
pepperóní.