- nounpepper (noun) · peppers (plural noun)
- a pungent, hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, commonly used as a spice or condiment to flavor food:"season to taste with salt and pepper"
- a reddish hot-tasting spice prepared from various forms of capsicum.
- a capsicum, especially a sweet pepper.
- a climbing vine with berries that are dried as black or white peppercorns.
- used in names of other plants that are related to this, have hot-tasting leaves, or have fruits used as a pungent spice, e.g., water pepper.
- baseballa practice game in which fielders throw at close range to a batter who hits back to the fielders:"he liked to play pepper"
verbpepper (verb) · peppers (third person present) · peppered (past tense) · peppered (past participle) · peppering (present participle)- sprinkle or season (food) with pepper:"I salted and peppered the beef before I browned it"
- (be peppered with)cover or fill with a liberal amount of scattered items:"the script is peppered with four-letter words"
- hit repeatedly with small missiles or gunshot:"his car was peppered with bullets"
- archaicinflict severe punishment or suffering upon:"if he finds out my haunts he swears he'll pepper me"
OriginOld English piper, pipor, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch peper and German Pfeffer; via Latin from Greek peperi, from Sanskrit pippalī ‘berry, peppercorn’.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- cover or fill with a liberal amount of scattered items:
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