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PEP-uh/ˈpepə/

Pepper is the hot powder you shake on food with salt: salt and pepper. It is also a vegetable (a green pepper). Paper is for writing — easy mix. Chilli is hotter. Use a pinch of pepper.

Meaning

A hot powder used to flavour food; also a vegetable, green or red.

Examples

• “Add salt and pepper.”
• “This soup needs more pepper.”
• “Cut the red pepper into strips.”

Good to know

salt and pepper (spice). Also: a green/red pepper (vegetable). Mix-up: paper.

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