PEPPER


Meaning of PEPPER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pepə(r) ]

( peppers, peppering, peppered)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Pepper is a hot-tasting spice which is used to flavour food.

Season with salt and pepper.

...freshly ground black pepper.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

A pepper , or in American English a bell pepper , is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable with seeds inside it.

N-COUNT

3.

If something is peppered with small objects, a lot of those objects hit it.

He was wounded in both legs and severely peppered with shrapnel...

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed with n

4.

If something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on it.

While her English was correct, it was peppered with French phrases...

Yachts peppered the tranquil waters of Botafogo Bay.

VERB : be V-ed with n , V n

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