different between pep vs vigour

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of pepper (“spice”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Verb

pep (third-person singular simple present peps, present participle pepping, simple past and past participle pepped)

1. (transitive) To inject with energy and enthusiasm.
   • 1995, Faithless (band), Insomnia (song)

     At least a couple of weeks since I last slept,
     Kept takin' sleepers, but now I keep myself pepped.

Derived terms

• pep up

Translations

Noun

pep (countable and uncountable, plural peps)

1. Energy, high spirits.
   • 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren

     She was particularly pleased with the wine, which at not infrequent intervals she tasted. Beyond all doubt it promised to be of vintage quality. Clearly the long hot summer had put more than a little pep into the berries.

Synonyms

• energy, high spirits, vim

Derived terms

• pep talk

Translations

Anagrams

• EPP, PPE

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pep.

Pronunciation

Noun

pep c (uncountable)

1. (slang) the drug speed

   Synonym: speed

Kombio

Noun

pep

1. water

References

• Henry, Joan. Kombio Grammar Essentials. Ms. 123pp. (1992).

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?p/

Verb

pep

1. past tense of pipa.

Volapük

Noun

pep (uncountable peps)

1. pepper (spice)

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• vigor (US)
• vygour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeo (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?].

Related to vigil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?v???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

vigour (countable and uncountable, plural vigours)

1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
2. (biology) Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.

   A plant grows with vigour.

3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

Usage notes

Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

Derived terms

• envigorate
• vigorous
• hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

Related terms

• vegetable
• vigil

Translations

Old French

Noun

vigour m (oblique plural vigours, nominative singular vigours, nominative plural vigour)

1. Alternative form of vigur