pepper
Word family nounpeppererpepperinesspepperingpeppercornpeppermillpeppermintpepper potpepperwortpepperadjectivepepperypepper-and-saltpeppercorny
Food
pep·per1 /ˈpepə $ -ər/ ●●● S3 noun 1 
[uncountableU]DF a powder that is used to add a hot taste to food 胡椒粉
[uncountableU]DF a powder that is used to add a hot taste to food 胡椒粉 salt and pepper
→ black pepper, white pepper 盐和胡椒粉
2. 
[countableC]DF a hollow red, green, or yellow vegetable, eaten either raw or cooked with other food 甜椒，灯笼椒，柿子椒 SYN American English bell pepper → sweet pepper, cayenne pepper, red pepper →5 see picture at 见图 vegetable1
[countableC]DF a hollow red, green, or yellow vegetable, eaten either raw or cooked with other food 甜椒，灯笼椒，柿子椒 SYN American English bell pepper → sweet pepper, cayenne pepper, red pepper →5 see picture at 见图 vegetable1Examples from the Corpus
pepper• Heat oil and 1 tablespoon butter in a large, deep skillet and add leeks and a little salt and pepper.• In a large bowl, combine the milk, eggs, nutmeg, salt and pepper and pour into the shells.• Add Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.• Pass the salt and pepper, please.• Add vinegar, salt and pepper, linen napkins and best glasses.• Discard the bay leaves and add the tomatoes, tomato pur e, black pepper and 1 tablespoon of the chopped coriander.• In a bowl, combine the red pepper, yoghurt, ketchup, tomato paste and Worcester sauce.• Add salt, pepper and oregano.• Cut the yellow peppers into strips, removing all the seeds.
Weapons, Food
pepper2 verb [transitiveT] 1 SPREADif something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on it 在…上大量撒；使…布满
be peppered with something
a speech peppered with amusing stories
穿插了许多有趣故事的演讲
The surface of the Moon is peppered with craters.
月球表面布满陨石坑。
n Grammar
Pepper is usually passive in this meaning.
2 PMWif bullets pepper something, they hit it several times 连续射击
Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.
机枪的火力不断攻击大楼的正面。
3 pepper somebody with questions American EnglishAmE to ask someone a lot of questions, one after the other 连珠炮似的向某人提问
Reporters peppered him with questions.
记者们连珠炮似的向他发问。
Examples from the Corpus
pepper somebody with questions• At every stop, reporters peppered her with questions.• As the doctor tends the grandfather, the young man peppers him with questions.• Later, students peppered King with questions.• The justices peppered the attorneys with questions.
4 DFto add pepper to food 给〔食物〕加胡椒粉
Pepper the steak well.
将胡椒粉均匀地撒在牛排上。
peppered salami
加了胡椒粉的萨拉米香肠
Examples from the Corpus
pepper• There are great ones peppered all over the division.• Thorns pricked his hands, and his back felt as if it were being peppered by poison darts.• Over the years these walkabouts have led to a stream of inventions that now pepper construction sites all over the city.• Maiden's structure as a book is different, it is peppered with diary entries of the race and pictures.• She then continued talking to her friend in a conversation which was peppered with exactly the same word.• This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.• The first seven years of his life, then, were peppered with separations.
be peppered with something• She then continued talking to her friend in a conversation which was peppered with exactly the same word.• This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.• The first seven years of his life, then, were peppered with separations.• A family of illegal aliens is peppered with shotgun pellets in a drive-by shooting.• Our worst years were peppered with the very real misery of violence and abuse when that scream turned into a row.• Her short red hair was crudely shaped in a wedge and her pallid cheeks and small chin were peppered with unsightly acne.• His scores were peppered with witty indications and funny titles.
Old English pipor, from Latin piper, from Greek peperi