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pepper
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)
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- (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.
- (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".
- (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)
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- (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
- Alternative form of peper
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse piparr
Pronunciation
Noun
pepper m (definite singular pepperen)
- pepper (spice)
Derived terms
- pepperkake
- peppermynte
See also
- pepar (Nynorsk)
References
- “pepper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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popper
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?p.?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?p?p.?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?.p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?(r)
- Homophone: pauper (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop +? -er (suffix forming agent noun).
Noun
popper (plural poppers)
- One who or that which pops.
- (obsolete) A dagger.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reves Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2003, Walter W. Skeat (editor) Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2, The Reeve's Prologue ,
- A joly popper baar he in his pouche ; / Ther was no man for peril dorste him touche.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reves Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2003, Walter W. Skeat (editor) Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2, The Reeve's Prologue ,
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- Synonym: cracker
- (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
- Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
- Synonyms: snap, snap fastener, press stud
- A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
- A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
- 2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain (page 168)
- You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]
- 2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain (page 168)
- A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
- (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
- Looks like she's had too many poppers.
- (uncountable) Amyl nitrate.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Popper (“a brand name”), a brand name owned by Queensland United Foods; from 1978.
Noun
popper (plural poppers)
- (Australia) Synonym of juice box
Spanish
Noun
popper m (plural poppers)
- popper (capsule for recreational use as a sexual stimulant)
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