pepperpotn.

Brit.

/ˈpɛpəpɒt/, U.S.

/ˈpɛpərˌpɑt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pepper n., pot n.¹

Etymology: < pepper n. + pot n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier pepperbox n., pepper castor n.

a. A small, usually cylindrical container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper on food. Cf. pepperbox n. 1a, pepper castor n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > pepper-pot

pepper-hornlOE

pepperbox1543

pepper castor1676

pepperpot1679

pepper shaker1889

pepperette1893

pepper1897

1679 London Gaz. No. 1381/4 One Mustard Pot and Pepper Pot of silver.

1792 G. Colman Poor Old Hay Market in Plays (1981) i. 4 The Storm in the Battle of Hexham has worn it as full of Holes as a Pepperpot.

1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 267 What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom!

1875 C. W. S. Brooks Naggletons xxii. 210 I wish the cook had given another shake of the pepper-pot.

1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xxv. 244 He had taken his snuff-box,..and suddenly he emptied the contents of the pepper-pot into it.

1993 S. Sallis Daughters of Moon (BNC) 237 She put the cruet in the centre of the table and knocked the pepper pot from its holder.

b. figurative. A hot-tempered person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun] > irascible person

wasp1496

shit-fire1598

flesh-pistol1608

tinder-box1608

touchwood1617

Tartar1669

touch and go1675

spitfire1684

vengeance1712

spunkie1821

pepperbox1822

tempest1852

pepperer1864

gingersnap1889

pepperpot1894

spit-cat1898

spit kitten1912

slow burner1930

fireball1931

pop-off1938

1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Brother Peter in Wks. 279 Warm in the praise, thou might'st have been..But not so diabolically hot—A downright devil, or a pepper-pot.

1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xxi. 308 ‘What pepper-pots you are!’ sighed Jo. ‘How do you mean to settle this affair?’

1894 G. M. Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 105 Apologise for saving that old pepperpot's life!

1975 New Yorker 19 May 34/1 Crinkle-faced pepperpot Henry Miller is brooding.

1999 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Sports Day section) 2 b The terrible-tempered Kevin Brown, plus pepperpot skipper Davey Johnson.

c. Something resembling a pepperpot in shape; esp. a small turret. Cf. pepperbox n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > turret > of specific shape

roundel1633

pepperbox1763

rounder1774

pepperpot1838

pepper castor1855

1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. vi. 116 Wiley would have been in the pepper-pot at Uppington by this time.

1886 Cornhill Mag. July 29 The old workhouse is gone, and a new one with golden vanes and pepper-pots has arisen in its stead.

1926 A. D. Godley Reliquiae I. ii. iii. 176 Queen's was still, as they say, ‘Gothic and barbarous’—if one can imagine the High without the Queen's pepperpot.

1986 New Yorker 3 Nov. 56/1 A wide view of the back of the castle, which has at one end a square tower adorned with pepper pots.

a. A Caribbean soup or stew consisting of pieces of meat cooked slowly with red peppers, cassareep, sugar, and other seasoning. Also attributive in pepperpot soup, pepperpot stew.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun]

gyngawdry?c1390

salomenec1430

sorréc1430

tavorsayc1450

spitchcock1601

minnow tansy1655

kedgeree1662

pepperpot1698

matelote1723

water-souchy1726

pitchcock1739

flibrigo1762

twice-laid1777

ngapi1800

a kettle of fish1823

brandade1825

fish supper1829

truite au bleu1834

sole (à la) Colbert1846

bouillabaisse1855

fish and chips1876

hákarl1879

sashimi1880

timbale1880

gefilte fish1892

stamp and go1893

truite bleue1907

waterzooi1915

accra1919

Bismarck herring1931

gravlax1935

goujon1940

coddie1941

seviche1951

tuna salad1953

crabstick1956

zarzuela1956

sole Véronique1960

fish finger1962

moqueca1980

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > stewed meat

stewpot1542

estew1566

fricassee1568

ragout1652

pepperpot1698

grenade1706

haricot1706

pupton1706

lobscouse1707

stew1756

puchero1802

granada1806

bredie1815

muddle1833

scouse1840

slum1847

hashmagandy1851

ropa vieja1855

chilli con carne1857

sorpotel1863

goulash1866

daube1877

paprikash1877

chilli1886

pot-pie1890

slumgullion1902

cholent1903

cracker-hash1904

cracker-stew1909

gippo1914

waterzooi1915

Fanny Adams1921

adobo1938

cassoulet1940

feijoada1941

coddle1942

stifado1950

rancho1957

tinga1964

1698 E. Ward Trip to Jamaica 15 They make a rare Soop they call Pepper-Pot.

a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 115 That most delicate Pallat-scorching-Soop call'd Pepper-pot, a kind of Devil's Broath much eat in the West-Indies.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 215 He taught me..to cook several outlandish delicacies, such as ollas, pepper pots, pillaws, corys, chabobs, and stufatas.

1836 J. K. Paulding tr. D. N. A. Oudenarde Bk St. Nicholas 134 A confirmed preference of potage à la Turque over pepper-pot.

1899 J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 122 She quickly returned with a calabash of thin pepper-pot and a cake of cassava bread.

1958 R. Howe Cooking from Commonw. 387 (heading) Jamaica. Pepperpot soup.

1994 Food & Wine Oct. 9 (advt.) Our own Bajan cuisine which features exotic delights like pepperpot stew.

b. A stew of tripe, meat, vegetables, and small dumplings, seasoned with pepper, originally made in Pennsylvania.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > tripe dishes

mugget1596

mondongo1622

pepperpot1791

rolliche1830

tripe à la mode (du pays)1858

1791 W. Maclay Deb. Senate 277 When the Senate adjourned, he asked me to go and eat pepper-pot with him.

1800 C. Macpherson Mem. 205 ‘And what have you got for dinner..?’—‘Me have got peppa pot, Massa.’

1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. xiv. 231 Whose principal trade consists in the exportation of Toughy and Pepper Pot.

1930 J. Williamson Amer. Hotel 217 A..list..of American culinary creations..would include such concoctions as..Philadelphia pepper-pot.

1999 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 17 Nov. h8 The historian chef takes his potage seriously indeed,..from creamed spinach with liver dumplings to pepperpot with pumpkin and seafood.

Derivatives

ˈpepperpot-like adj. resembling a pepperpot; perforated like the top of a pepperpot.

ΚΠ

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 27 A hill, on whose summit stands Fort William, a pepper-pot~like structure now used as a lighthouse.

1947 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 190 376 Pepperpot-like diaphragms were used to cut out of the large beams some fine pencils.

2003 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Nexis) 21 July 21 Hundreds of the giant pepperpot-like robots are descending on Wiltshire's Longleat estate in a bid to create a record for the most number of Daleks gathered in one place.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pepperpot
释义	pepperpotn. Brit. /ˈpɛpəpɒt/, U.S. /ˈpɛpərˌpɑt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pepper n., pot n.¹ Etymology: < pepper n. + pot n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier pepperbox n., pepper castor n. 1. a. A small, usually cylindrical container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper on food. Cf. pepperbox n. 1a, pepper castor n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > pepper-pot pepper-hornlOE pepperbox1543 pepper castor1676 pepperpot1679 pepper shaker1889 pepperette1893 pepper1897 1679 London Gaz. No. 1381/4 One Mustard Pot and Pepper Pot of silver. 1792 G. Colman Poor Old Hay Market in Plays (1981) i. 4 The Storm in the Battle of Hexham has worn it as full of Holes as a Pepperpot. 1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 267 What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom! 1875 C. W. S. Brooks Naggletons xxii. 210 I wish the cook had given another shake of the pepper-pot. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xxv. 244 He had taken his snuff-box,..and suddenly he emptied the contents of the pepper-pot into it. 1993 S. Sallis Daughters of Moon (BNC) 237 She put the cruet in the centre of the table and knocked the pepper pot from its holder. b. figurative. A hot-tempered person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun] > irascible person wasp1496 shit-fire1598 flesh-pistol1608 tinder-box1608 touchwood1617 Tartar1669 touch and go1675 spitfire1684 vengeance1712 spunkie1821 pepperbox1822 tempest1852 pepperer1864 gingersnap1889 pepperpot1894 spit-cat1898 spit kitten1912 slow burner1930 fireball1931 pop-off1938 1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Brother Peter in Wks. 279 Warm in the praise, thou might'st have been..But not so diabolically hot—A downright devil, or a pepper-pot. 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xxi. 308 ‘What pepper-pots you are!’ sighed Jo. ‘How do you mean to settle this affair?’ 1894 G. M. Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 105 Apologise for saving that old pepperpot's life! 1975 New Yorker 19 May 34/1 Crinkle-faced pepperpot Henry Miller is brooding. 1999 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Sports Day section) 2 b The terrible-tempered Kevin Brown, plus pepperpot skipper Davey Johnson. c. Something resembling a pepperpot in shape; esp. a small turret. Cf. pepperbox n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > turret > of specific shape roundel1633 pepperbox1763 rounder1774 pepperpot1838 pepper castor1855 1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. vi. 116 Wiley would have been in the pepper-pot at Uppington by this time. 1886 Cornhill Mag. July 29 The old workhouse is gone, and a new one with golden vanes and pepper-pots has arisen in its stead. 1926 A. D. Godley Reliquiae I. ii. iii. 176 Queen's was still, as they say, ‘Gothic and barbarous’—if one can imagine the High without the Queen's pepperpot. 1986 New Yorker 3 Nov. 56/1 A wide view of the back of the castle, which has at one end a square tower adorned with pepper pots. 2. a. A Caribbean soup or stew consisting of pieces of meat cooked slowly with red peppers, cassareep, sugar, and other seasoning. Also attributive in pepperpot soup, pepperpot stew. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun] gyngawdry?c1390 salomenec1430 sorréc1430 tavorsayc1450 spitchcock1601 minnow tansy1655 kedgeree1662 pepperpot1698 matelote1723 water-souchy1726 pitchcock1739 flibrigo1762 twice-laid1777 ngapi1800 a kettle of fish1823 brandade1825 fish supper1829 truite au bleu1834 sole (à la) Colbert1846 bouillabaisse1855 fish and chips1876 hákarl1879 sashimi1880 timbale1880 gefilte fish1892 stamp and go1893 truite bleue1907 waterzooi1915 accra1919 Bismarck herring1931 gravlax1935 goujon1940 coddie1941 seviche1951 tuna salad1953 crabstick1956 zarzuela1956 sole Véronique1960 fish finger1962 moqueca1980 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > stewed meat stewpot1542 estew1566 fricassee1568 ragout1652 pepperpot1698 grenade1706 haricot1706 pupton1706 lobscouse1707 stew1756 puchero1802 granada1806 bredie1815 muddle1833 scouse1840 slum1847 hashmagandy1851 ropa vieja1855 chilli con carne1857 sorpotel1863 goulash1866 daube1877 paprikash1877 chilli1886 pot-pie1890 slumgullion1902 cholent1903 cracker-hash1904 cracker-stew1909 gippo1914 waterzooi1915 Fanny Adams1921 adobo1938 cassoulet1940 feijoada1941 coddle1942 stifado1950 rancho1957 tinga1964 1698 E. Ward Trip to Jamaica 15 They make a rare Soop they call Pepper-Pot. a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 115 That most delicate Pallat-scorching-Soop call'd Pepper-pot, a kind of Devil's Broath much eat in the West-Indies. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 215 He taught me..to cook several outlandish delicacies, such as ollas, pepper pots, pillaws, corys, chabobs, and stufatas. 1836 J. K. Paulding tr. D. N. A. Oudenarde Bk St. Nicholas 134 A confirmed preference of potage à la Turque over pepper-pot. 1899 J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 122 She quickly returned with a calabash of thin pepper-pot and a cake of cassava bread. 1958 R. Howe Cooking from Commonw. 387 (heading) Jamaica. Pepperpot soup. 1994 Food & Wine Oct. 9 (advt.) Our own Bajan cuisine which features exotic delights like pepperpot stew. b. A stew of tripe, meat, vegetables, and small dumplings, seasoned with pepper, originally made in Pennsylvania. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > tripe dishes mugget1596 mondongo1622 pepperpot1791 rolliche1830 tripe à la mode (du pays)1858 1791 W. Maclay Deb. Senate 277 When the Senate adjourned, he asked me to go and eat pepper-pot with him. 1800 C. Macpherson Mem. 205 ‘And what have you got for dinner..?’—‘Me have got peppa pot, Massa.’ 1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. xiv. 231 Whose principal trade consists in the exportation of Toughy and Pepper Pot. 1930 J. Williamson Amer. Hotel 217 A..list..of American culinary creations..would include such concoctions as..Philadelphia pepper-pot. 1999 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 17 Nov. h8 The historian chef takes his potage seriously indeed,..from creamed spinach with liver dumplings to pepperpot with pumpkin and seafood. Derivatives ˈpepperpot-like adj. resembling a pepperpot; perforated like the top of a pepperpot. ΚΠ 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 27 A hill, on whose summit stands Fort William, a pepper-pot~like structure now used as a lighthouse. 1947 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 190 376 Pepperpot-like diaphragms were used to cut out of the large beams some fine pencils. 2003 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Nexis) 21 July 21 Hundreds of the giant pepperpot-like robots are descending on Wiltshire's Longleat estate in a bid to create a record for the most number of Daleks gathered in one place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : pepper-potv. < n.1679 see also
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