different between pepper vs hound

English

Alternative forms

• piper (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit ??????? (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the European spice.

Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of peepul.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Noun

pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)

1. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
2. (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
3. (Britain, US, Ireland and Canada) A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
4. (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

   Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

5. (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

Synonyms

• (fruit of the capsicum):
  • (spicy): chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper
  • (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepper, capsicum

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: pepa
• ? Hawaiian: pepa
• ? Marshallese: pepa

Translations

Verb

pepper (third-person singular simple present peppers, present participle peppering, simple past and past participle peppered)

1. (transitive) To add pepper to.
2. (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
3. (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).

4. (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.

5. (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.

Derived terms

• bepepper
• peppering

Related terms

Translations

See also

• salt
• Wikipedia article on pepper
• Wikipedia article on peppers (fruits of the capsicum plant)

Middle English

Noun

pepper

1. Alternative form of peper

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse piparr

Pronunciation

Noun

pepper m (definite singular pepperen)

1. pepper (spice)

Derived terms

• pepperkake
• peppermynte

See also

• pepar (Nynorsk)

References

• “pepper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with West Frisian hûn, Dutch hond, Luxembourgish Hond, German Hund, German Low German Hund, Danish hund, Faroese hundur, Icelandic hundur, Norwegian Bokmål hund, Norwegian Nynorsk hund, and Swedish hund), from pre-Germanic *?untós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene (“big dog”), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *?w? (“dog”) (compare Welsh cwn (“dogs”), Tocharian B ku, Lithuanian šuõ, Armenian ???? (šun), Russian ???? (suka). Doublet of canine.

Noun

hound (plural hounds)

1. A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
2. Any canine animal.
3. (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
   • 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, ?ISBN, page 93,

     On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.

   • 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster, ?ISBN, page 483

     I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.

4. (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
   • 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,

     "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]

     "She had a good many successors, John."

     "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."

5. A despicable person.
   • 1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me and Other Uncanny Invitations

     'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.

6. A houndfish.

Usage notes

• In more recent times, hound has been replaced by Modern English dog but the sense remains the same.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English hounden, from the noun (see above).

Verb

hound (third-person singular simple present hounds, present participle hounding, simple past and past participle hounded)

1. (transitive) To persistently harass.
2. (transitive) To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
   • 1897, Andrew Lang, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (page 162)

     We both thought we saw what had the appearance to be a fox, and hounded the dogs at it, but they would not pursue it.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hownde, hount, houn, probably from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *h?naz.

Noun

hound (plural hounds)

1. (nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
2. A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

Anagrams

• Duhon, Hudon, hundo, no duh

Middle English

Alternative forms

• honde, hounde, hund, hunde, hond, hownd, hownde, hwond

Etymology

From Old English hund

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?nd/, /hund/

Noun

hound (plural houndes or hounden)

1. dog, hound (The canid Canis lupus familiaris)
   1. A pet dog; a dog kept for companionship.
   2. A hunting or sporting dog; a hound.
   3. (specifically) A male or fully-grown dog.
2. A strong term of abuse, especially used against enemies of one's religion
3. (rare) A heraldic portrayal of a dog.
4. (rare) The forces of evil; the infernal army.
5. (rare) Sirius (star)

Usage notes

The general word for "dog" is hound; dogge is vaguely derogatory and has a sense of "mongrel" or "cur".

Derived terms

• hound fysch
• hounden
• houndesberye
• houndestonge

Descendants

• English: hound
  • Northumbrian: hoond, hund
• Scots: hoond, hund

References

• “h?und, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-11.