pepper
Forms
- Plural
- peppers
- present (v1)
- pepper
- past (v2)
- peppered
- past participle (v3)
- peppered
- present participle
- peppering
- 3rd person singular
- peppers
Definitions
1.A plant of the family Piperaceae.
2.A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
3.A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
4.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".
1.To strike with something made up of small particles.
2.To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
3.To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.
4.To add pepper to.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2414
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”).