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Pepper

noun

Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam. Synonyms: black pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper.

Any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers. Synonyms: capsicum, capsicum pepper plant.

Pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground. Synonym: peppercorn.

Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum.

verb

(past & past part. peppered; pres. part. peppering)

Add pepper to.

Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles. Synonym: pelt.

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"Pepper" Quotes from Famous Books

... Master Silas. "If your wise doctor could say nothing more about the fool, who died like a rotten sheep among the darnels, his Latin might have held out for the father, and might have told people he was as cool as a cucumber at home, and as hot as pepper in battle. Could he not find room enough on the whinstone, to tell the folks of the village how he played the devil among the dons, burning their fingers when they would put thumbscrews upon us, punching them in the weasand as a blacksmith ...

— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor

... the kerns were ripe," said Bobaday, turning his pepper-and-salt trousers up until the linings showed. "This farm ain't ours now, ...

— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... remember that these spiked nettles of life are part of our discipline. Life would get nauseating if it were all honey. That table would be poorly set that had on it nothing but treacle. We need a little vinegar, mustard, pepper and horse-radish that brings the tears even when we do not feel pathetic. If this world were all smoothness, we would never be ready for emigration to a higher and better. Blustering March and weeping April ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... think of a rag-picker's wife as dining sparingly out of a bag—not with her head inside like a horse, but thrusting her scrawny arm elbow deep to stir the pottage, and sprinkling salt and pepper on for nicer flavor. Following such preparation she will fork it out like macaroni, with her head thrown back to present the wider orifice. If her husband's route lies along the richer streets she will have by way of tidbit for dessert ...

— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks

... furnish in the way of good cheer, and we may be sure that venison and turkey from the forest, ducks from the rice fields, and fish from the river at their doors, were there.... Turtle came from the West Indies, with 'saffron and negroe pepper, very delicate for dressing it.' Rice and vegetables were in plenty—terrapins in every pond, and Carolina hams proverbially fine. The desserts were custards and creams (at a wedding always bride cake and floating island), jellies, syllabubs, puddings and pastries.... ...

— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday

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