pepper

Meanings

Plural: peppers

Noun

climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
A plant of the family Piperaceae.
A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
A beating; a thrashing.
A shotgun.

Verb

add pepper to
- "pepper the soup"
attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
To add pepper to.
To strike with something made up of small particles.
To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
To add (something) at frequent intervals.
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.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.

Synonyms

black pepper, capsicum, capsicum pepper plant, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pelt, peppercorn, Piper nigrum, white pepper

Scrabble Score: 12

pepper is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
pepper is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pepper is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

pepper is a valid Words With Friends word