pepper pot

See also: pepperpot and pepper-pot

English

Alternative forms

• pepperpot, pepper-pot (in attributive use)

Noun

pepper pot (plural pepper pots)

1. A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper
2. A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.
3. (figurative) A person who is hot tempered; a feisty or argumentative person.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     An unfortunate quarrel between our pepperpots marked the outset of our new stage.

Synonyms

• (container for pepper): peppershaker
• (soup): Philadelphia pepper pot

Translations

container

Bulgarian: пиперник m (pipernik) Catalan: pebrera (ca) Dutch: pepervaatje (nl) n, peperbus (nl) f French: poivrière (fr) f Italian: pepiera f, pepaiola f Norman: paîvriyi m, paîvriéthe f Polish: pieprzniczka (pl) Romanian: piperniță (ro) f Russian: пе́речница (ru) f (pérečnica) Welsh: bocs pupur m

See also

• pepper mill