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prepper
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
prep (“prep school”) +? -er.
Noun
prepper (plural preppers)
- (Britain, slang) A student at a prep school.
- Coordinate term: (US) preppy
- (Britain, slang) Prep school.
- 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
- ‘We have a vacancy at a very nice little prepper in North Yorkshire. Cundall Manor.’
- 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
Etymology 2
prep (“prepare”, verb) +? -er.
Noun
prepper (plural preppers)
- A survivalist; one who actively prepares for emergencies.
Descendants
- ? German: Prepper
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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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