different between peppier vs pepper

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?pi?(?)/

Adjective

peppier

1. comparative form of peppy: more peppy

Etymology 2

Mock-French, along the lines of sommelier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?pie?/

Noun

peppier (plural peppiers)

1. (humorous) A waiter at a restaurant who offers to grind pepper onto customers' meals at the table.
   • 1999 October 8, Jessie (Loa), Pedants... don't read this. =), in alt.books.m-lackey, Usenet:

     Actually my parents found something very interesting at one place .... they did a "take time off, travel north america" trip last year, and found this place ... name escaping me ... I think it was something like Hot Tossed Buns. Well, they walk in ... and sit down ... and not only were the portions amazing, they had two things. Instead of peppiers, they had people who walked around, with the side dishes of the day, offering you more and more, if you wanted more at any time, you got it.

   • 2001 February 18, Tim Hall, Spilero 15/2, in uk.media.radio.archers, Usenet:

     Shirley the pepper mills are whipped away by the peppier after use, so no danger there. But what about the candles?

   • 2001 February 20, Lady Archer, Make me laugh, in alt.astrology, Usenet:

     Widdershins <[email protected]> wrote:
     […]
     > 7. PEPPIER (peph ee ay') n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose
     > sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want
     > fresh ground pepper.
     Ah, Norway is still a peppier-free zone!

Anagrams

• preppie

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.