pepper
US: /ˈpɛpɝ/
UK: /pˈɛpɐ/
UK: /pˈɛpɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
pepper /'pepə'ri:nou/
- danh từ
- hạt tiêu, hồ tiêu
- white pepper: hạt tiêu trắng
- black pepper: hạt tiêu đen
- cayenne pepper: ớt cayen
- (nghĩa bóng) điều chua cay
- hạt tiêu, hồ tiêu
- ngoại động từ
- rắc tiêu vào, cho tiêu vào
- rải lên, rắc lên, ném lên
- to pepper something with sand: rải cát lên vật gì
- bắn như mưa vào
- to peppern something with missiles: bắn tên lửa như mưa vào cái gì
- (nghĩa bóng) hỏi dồn
- to pepper someone with questions: hỏi dồn ai
- trừng phạt nghiêm khắc
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [U] a grey or pale yellow powder made from dried berries (called PEPPERCORNS), used to give a hot flavour to food: Season with salt and pepper + freshly ground pepper + black / white pepper
See also -
2 [C, U] (BrE) (AmE bell pepper) a hollow fruit, usually red, green or yellow, eaten as a vegetable either raw or cooked
+ verb [VN] to put pepper on food: peppered steak + Salt and pepper the potatoes.
Phrasal Verbs: pepper sb/sth with sth [usually passive] to hit sb/sth with a series of small objects, especially bullets
pepper sth with sth [often passive] to include large numbers of sth in sth: He peppered his speech with jokes.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
sprinkle, scatter, dot, speckle, fleck, spot, spray, bespeckle, speckle, spatter, stipple, mottle:
The letter was peppered with ink-spots. Their speech was peppered with swear-words.
Collocation dictionary
1 spice
ADJ.
ground
freshly ground black pepper
| black, white | cayenne
VERB + PEPPER
add, put in/on, season sth with, sprinkle
He put some pepper on his steak.
| grind
PEPPER + NOUN
mill, pot, shaker
PHRASES
salt and pepper
Add salt and pepper to taste (= in the quantity preferred).
2 vegetable
ADJ.
bell, sweet | chilli, hot | green, red, yellow | stuffed
peppers stuffed with meat and rice > Special page at FOOD
Concise English dictionary
peppers|peppered|peppering'pepə(r)
noun
+climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
+any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
+pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
+sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
verb
+add pepper to
+attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
