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pepper-pot

pepper-pot is the alternative form of pepper pot.

Meaning of pepper pot

Noun

pepper pot (plural pepper pots)

  1. A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper.
  2. A mushroom, Myriostoma coliforme.
  3. A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.
  4. (figuratively) 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, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Verb

pepper-pot (third-person singular simple present pepper-pots, present participle pepper-potting, simple past and past participle pepper-potted)

  1. (New Zealand, UK) 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, Hans Mol, The fixed and the fickle: religion and identity in New Zealand, page 70
    • Although these would be of a maximum of 12 houses, he would prefer to pepper-pot rather than create the risk of "mini ghettos".1997, Institute of Housing (Great Britain), Housing (volume 33, page 22)

Forms of pepper-pot

Noun
pluralpepper-pots
Verb
third-person singular presentpepper-pots
present participlepepper-potting
past participlepepper-potted
pastpepper-potted

Questions about pepper-pot

What does pepper-pot mean?
Pepper-pot means to intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
What is pepper-pot the alternative form of?
Pepper-pot is the alternative form of pepper pot.
What part of speech is pepper-pot?
Pepper-pot is a verb.
What is the past tense of pepper-pot?
The past tense of pepper-pot is pepper-potted.

Words near pepper-pot in the dictionary

  1. pepper-and-salt
  2. pepper-gas
  3. pepper-gases
  4. pepper-gingerbread
  5. pepper-gingerbreads
  6. pepper-pot
  7. pepper-pots
  8. pepper-potted
  9. pepper-potting
  10. pepper-shinned loon
  11. pepper-spray

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pepper-pot (page history and authors); pepper pot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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