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   pepper

   /ˈpɛpə/

   noun

   • 1. a pungent hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, used as a spice or condiment to flavour food: "season to taste with salt and pepper"
   • ▪ a reddish hot-tasting spice prepared from various forms of capsicum.
   • 2. a capsicum, especially a sweet pepper.
   • 3. a climbing vine with berries that are dried as black or white peppercorns.
   • ▪ used in names of other plants which are related or similar to the pepper, e.g. Jamaica pepper, water pepper.
   • 4. a practice game in which a fielder throws at close range to a batter who hits back to the fielder: "he liked to play pepper"

   verb

   • 1. sprinkle or season (food) with pepper: "I salted and peppered the beef before I browned it"
   • 2. cover or fill with a liberal amount of scattered items: "the script is peppered with four-letter words" Similar sprinklefleckinterspersedotspotbespatterdabbestudstipplepockfrecklescatterliterary:befleckbestrew
   • ▪ hit repeatedly with small missiles or gunshot: "his car was peppered with bullets" Similar bombardpeltshowerrain down onattackassailbatterfire a broadside atstraferakesweepenfiladeblitzhitarchaic:cannonadefusillade
   • ▪ inflict severe punishment or suffering upon: archaic "if he finds out my haunts he swears he'll pepper me"

   Word Origin Old Englishpiper, pipor, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch peper and German Pfeffer; via Latin from Greek peperi, from Sanskrit pippalī ‘berry, peppercorn’.

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