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Definition: PEPPERED |
PEPPEREDImperative & past participle1. Of Pepper |
Date "PEPPERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | PEPPERED. Infected with the venereal disease. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PEPPERED |
| English words defined with "PEPPERED": peppered steak. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PEPPERED": DEVIL ♦ LOBSCOUSE ♦ PEPPERED ♦ scrap. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Assault and Peppered (1965) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Agua Fria Canyon below a cloud peppered Arizona sky. Prickly pear cacti border the rim of the canyon.Credit: John Beckett. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCRAP-:BOOK:, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters: Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of peppered roast That's made of you; Wherein you paste the printed gibes That revel round your name, Thinking the laughter of the scribes Attests your fame; Where all the pictures you arrange That comic pencils trace -- Your funny figure and your strange Semitic face -- Pray lend it me. Wit I have not, Nor art, but there I'll list The daily drubbings you'd have got Had God a fist. |
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| "PEPPERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 57.38% of the time. "PEPPERED" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 57.38% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 24.59% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.39% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PEPPERED": peppered steak. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PEPPERED": black-peppered, five-peppered, grey-peppered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
peppered beef | 17 |
moth peppered | 15 |
peppered steak | 8 |
moths peppered | 8 |
peppered recipe steak | 7 |
chicken lemon peppered recipe | 2 |
peppered beef jerky | 2 |
palette peppered | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PEPPERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 乱质问 (Peppering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | alm.birkemaaler (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | peper-en zoutvlinder (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth), zandstralen in de vorm van zichtbare puntjes (peppered sandblast), berkevlinder (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth), berkespanner (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth), berkenvlinder (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pilkullinen hiekkapuhallusjälki (peppered sandblast), koivumittari (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sablé tacheté (peppered sandblast), sablé moucheté (peppered sandblast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gepfeffert (biting, fancy, juicy, peppery, scorching, spicy, steep, tough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Aμμοβολή (gravé sandblast, modelled sandblast, peppered sandblast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sabbiatura macchiettata (peppered sandblast), geometra della betulla (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 후춧가루를 뿌리ëŠ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pibbyrit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epperedpay fosco mosqueado por jacto de areia (peppered sandblast), areado salpicado (peppered sandblast). (various references) iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm). (various references) mateado en puntos por chorro de arena (peppered sandblast). (various references) stor björkmätare (brindled beauty moth, pepper and salt currant moth, pepper and salt moth, peppered moth), ådrig sandblästring (peppered sandblast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amphidasis betularia, Biston betularia, Biston betularius, Pachys betularia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"PEPPERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pepere, peperit, Pephredo, pepperd, poppere, poppered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PEPPERED" (pronounced pe"perd) |
| 4 | -e" p er d | leopard, Shepherd. |
| 3 | -p er d | hampered, pampered, papered, prospered, scampered, tampered, tapered, tempered, unhampered, wallpapered, whispered, zippered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-p-p-p-r" | |
-1 letter: prepped. | |
-2 letters: deeper, peeped, peeper, peered, pepped, pepper, repped. | |
-3 letters: preed. | |
-4 letters: deep, deer, dere, dree, epee, peed, peep, peer, perp, pree, prep, rede, reed, repp. | |
-5 letters: dee, ere, ped, pee, pep, per, red, ree, rep. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-p-p-p-r" | |
+3 letters: preprepared. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 50 50 45 52 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .--. .--. . .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01010000 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E P P E R E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 0050 0050 0045 0052 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5039505039523938 |
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