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pepperer|ˈpɛpərə(r)|
[In 1, f. pepper n. + -er2: cf. med.L. piperārius (Du Cange); in 2, f. pepper v. + -er1.]
1. A dealer in pepper and spices; a grocer. (The original name of the Grocers' Company of London: see quots.) Obs. exc. Hist.
[1180in Madox Hist. Exchequer (1711) 390 Gilda Piperariorum, unde Edwardus est Aldermannus.] 1309Hustings Rolls No. 38. 102 in Guildh. Rec., Ralph le Balancer, Pepperer. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 74 At the suit of the Pepperers, now called Grocers of London. 1633Stow's Surv. 278 In the reigne of Henry the sixth..the Pepperers or Grocers had seated themselves..in Buckles⁓bury. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. i, It was but a scurvy Pepperer who made that joke. 1904J. A. Kingdon Strife of Scales 8 One Andrew Godard, a Pepperer, was appointed [6 Edw. II, 1312] Keeper of the King's Beam.
2. One who or that which peppers; fig. a hot-tempered person; something pungent or biting.
1711–12Swift Jrnl. to Stella 20 Feb., A ‘Representation of the state of the nation to the queen’..I believe it will be a pepperer. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. vi, But it's my way to make short cuts at things. I always was a pepperer. |