pepper
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Sense 1
- noun
- A2
A grey or black powder with a hot, sharp taste, made from dried berries and added to food while cooking or at the table.
Add a little salt and pepper before you serve the soup.
He ground fresh pepper over the pasta and stirred it in.
This sauce needs more pepper, it tastes rather flat.
Common collocations: black pepper · salt and pepper · freshly ground pepper · a pinch of pepper · pepper mill
Part of: Cooking
Sense 2
- noun
- A2
A hollow vegetable with thick, crisp, slightly sweet flesh and flat seeds inside, usually green, red or yellow.
I bought three red peppers to make a summer salad.
Cut the pepper in half and take out all the seeds.
Stuffed peppers with rice and meat bake for about an hour.
Common collocations: red pepper · green pepper · bell pepper · stuffed peppers · chopped pepper · roasted peppers
Part of: Vegetables, Cooking
Sense 3 · less common
- verb
- B1
To shake or grind pepper onto food.
Salt and pepper the meat well before you fry it.
She peppered the eggs lightly and put the pan back on.
Common collocations: salt and pepper something · pepper the meat · lightly peppered
Part of: Cooking
Forms
- past
- peppered
- plural
- peppers
- third_person
- peppers