pepper
noun
[ ˈpɛpə ]
• 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 capsicum, especially a sweet pepper.
• a climbing vine with berries that are dried as black or white peppercorns.
• 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"
pepper
verb
• sprinkle or season (food) with pepper.
• "I salted and peppered the beef before I browned it"
• cover or fill with a liberal amount of scattered items.
• "the script is peppered with four-letter words"
Similar:
sprinkle,
fleck,
intersperse,
dot,
spot,
bespatter,
dab,
bestud,
stipple,
pock,
freckle,
scatter,
befleck,
bestrew,
Origin:
Old English piper, pipor, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch peper and German Pfeffer ; via Latin from Greek peperi, from Sanskrit pippalī ‘berry, peppercorn’.
