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pepper-potted

pepper-potted is the simple past and past participle of pepper-pot.

Meaning of pepper-pot

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

Questions about pepper-potted

What is pepper-potted the simple past and past participle of?
Pepper-potted is the simple past and past participle of pepper-pot.

Words near pepper-potted in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pepper-potted (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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