pepper
/ˈpɛp.ɚ/ verb C2- To add pepper to.
- To strike with something made up of small particles.
- To cover with lots of (something made up of small things). · After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
- To add (something) at frequent intervals. · He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.
- To beat or thrash.
- To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
- To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
- To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
He/she/it peppers · Past peppered · Past participle peppered · -ing form peppering
Verb forms
- Base form
- pepper
- He/she/it
- peppers
- Past
- peppered
- Past participle
- peppered
- -ing form
- peppering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Ralph, a little wrinkled old fellow, was in the conventional costume of black coat and pepper-and-salt trousers, with only one curious variant.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
“When _I’m_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen _at all_.
Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
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