pepper

CEFRA2

/ˈpɛp.ə/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A hot or mild spice made from pepper plants.

  2. 02

    verb

    To hit or fill something with many small things.

Examples

  • I seasoned the fish with salt and pepper.

  • Pass me the salt and pepper, please.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.

  2. A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

  3. A plant of the family Piperaceae.

More examples

In context

  • After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.

  • He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.

  • Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

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Origin

noun

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.