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.
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2.
A pepper , or in American English a bell pepper , is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable with seeds inside it.
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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