Sekirov Dictionary

pepper pot

noun 4
pepper-pot verb 1
forms 4

noun4

A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper.
A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.
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(figurative) A person who is hot tempered; a feisty or argumentative person.
- An unfortunate quarrel between our pepperpots marked the outset of our new stage. — 1912
A mushroom, Myriostoma coliforme.

pepper-pot verb1

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(UK, New-Zealand) To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
- In a government office not so long ago, we read an understandable petition from Europeans asking that these 'pepper-potted' people be removed, or they were going to move. — 1982

forms

pepper-potted · pepper-potting · pepper-pots · pepper pots

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