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Definitions: Peppermint |
PeppermintNoun1. Herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring. 2. Red gum tree of Tasmania. 3. A candy flavored with peppermint oil. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peppermint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of peppermint, denotes pleasant entertainments and interesting affairs. To see it growing, denotes that you will participate in some pleasure in which there will be a dash of romance. To enjoy drinks in which there is an effusion of peppermint, denotes that you will enjoy assignations with some attractive and fascinating person. To a young woman, this dream warns her against seductive pleasures. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Larger peppermint and Corsican mint plant image
See also: Altoids
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peppermint."
Synonyms: PeppermintSynonyms: peppermint candy (n), peppermint gum (n), red gum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering. |
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Crosswords: Peppermint |
| English words defined with "peppermint": chartreuse ♦ Eucalyptus Globulus ♦ Mesityl oxide ♦ peppermint candy, peppermint gum, peppermint oil, peppermint patty, Peppermint tree ♦ rock, rock candy ♦ Suberone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "peppermint": Green Man and Still ♦ Peppermint. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's chocolate, it's peppermint, it's delicious. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Lyrics | It was the gangster rap and the peppermint Schnapps (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Peppermint Frappé (1967) | |
Song Titles | Peppermint Twist (performing artist: Joey Dee and The Starliters) | |
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 | Peppermint (top) and fine-leafed Corsican mint (bottom). P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Michael Thompson.. |  | Edward Villella, mid-air leap, in costume for his role as the Peppermint Stick in Tschaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" as performed by the New York City Ballet at City Center.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He pointed in the case at big long sticks of striped peppermint. |
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Business | The top herbal products are St. John's Wort, garlic, and ginseng, with other herbals such as Echinacea, gingko biloba, and peppermint making inroads in the U.K. market. (references) | |
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| "Peppermint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.30% of the time. "Peppermint" is used about 37 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 97.3% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "peppermint": peppermint camphor ♦ peppermint candy ♦ peppermint drop ♦ peppermint gum ♦ peppermint lozenge ♦ peppermint oil ♦ peppermint patty ♦ peppermint tree. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "peppermint": peppermint-scented. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
peppermint | 188 | park peppermint | 9 |
peppermint oil | 93 | peppermint leaf | 9 |
peppermint patty | 51 | peppermint twist | 8 |
agriculture peppermint | 35 | cream peppermint skin | 8 |
york peppermint patty | 31 | peppermint pig | 8 |
tea peppermint | 28 | lounge peppermint | 8 |
peppermint soap | 22 | cream ice peppermint | 8 |
peppermint candy | 22 | york peppermint pattie | 7 |
creep peppermint | 20 | peppermint rainbow | 7 |
peppermint schnapps | 20 | patty peanut peppermint | 7 |
peppermint plant | 18 | peppermint rose | 6 |
peppermint shrimp | 17 | liqueur peppermint | 6 |
company list peppermint | 15 | importer peppermint | 6 |
palm peppermint | 11 | aquarium peppermint shrimp | 6 |
peppermint lotion | 11 | cream ice peppermint recipe | 6 |
peppermint herb | 10 | peppermint extract | 6 |
buyer peppermint wholesale | 10 | peppermint stick | 6 |
peppermint seller | 10 | peppermint place | 6 |
music peppermint | 10 | peppermint pattie | 5 |
cream peppermint | 10 | peppermint record | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "peppermint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mendër (mint, spearmint), karamele mente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حلوى بالنعناع, النعنع الفلفلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackfoot | ka'kitsímo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ментово бонбонче, ментов ликьор, мента (mint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 薄荷 (field mint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mentolka, mentol (menthol), máta peprná (mint, spearmint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pebermynte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pepermunt (mint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نعناع بیابانی(گ.ش.), قرص نعناع . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | piparminttu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | menthe poivrée, menthe poivré, bonbon la menthe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pfefferminze, pfefferminz (mint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μέντα η πεπερώδης, μέντα (mint), ηδύοσμοσ (mint, spearmint), ηδύοσμος ο πεπερώδης, δυόσμοσ (mint, spearmint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ ת" (mint), ע ע (spearmint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mentacukorka, borsmenta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | permen (candy, confection, mint, sweets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | menta piperita. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 薄荷糖 , ミンク鯨 (minced beef, mince-meat, mince-pie, minke whale, mint, mint julep, mood, mood conditioning, moody, Moore, moose, mousse, mouton, mucho, Muse, piked whale), ペトリ皿 (pedometer, penalty, penalty area, penalty box, penalty goal, penalty kick, penicillin, penicillin anaphylaxy, penicillin shock, penis, pennant, pennant race, pepper, pepsin, peptide, petri dish, petrofood, petroleum, PG). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ミント (mint), ペパーミント , はっかとう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 박 (mint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mynthey phibbyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eppermintpay pimenta em grão, menta (mint). (various references) ulei de mentã, mentã (mint), bomboanã de mentã. (various references) перечная мята. (various references) nana (mint). (various references) pastilla de menta, menta (mint), la menta, hierbabuena (mint). (various references) pepparmynta. (various references) naneruhu, nane (mint, spearmint). (various references) м'ятна олія, перцева м'ята. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Mentha piperita, mentha piperita linnaeus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peppermint": peppermints, pepperminty. (additional references) | |
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"Peppermint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peperit, pepperami. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peppermint" (pronounced pe"permi'nt) |
| 4 | -m i' n t | varmint. |
| 3 | -i' n t | blueprint, fingerprint, footprint, forint, Gunflint, newsprint. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-n-p-p-p-r-t" | |
-3 letters: emptier, peppier, perpent, preempt, preppie. | |
-4 letters: emetin, empire, entire, epimer, ermine, metier, minter, nipper, pepper, permit, pitmen, premen, premie, pterin, reemit, remint, repent, repine, retime, retine, temper, tipper, triene. | |
-5 letters: enter, inept, inert, inter, merit, meter, metre, miner, miter, mitre, niter, nitre, peter, piper, pipet, preen, prime, primp, print, remet, remit, rente, repin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-n-p-p-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: peppermints, pepperminty. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 70 70 65 72 6D 69 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .--. .--. . .-. -- .. -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e p p e r m i n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0070 0070 0065 0072 006D 0069 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718282718479758086 |
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