pepperboxn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɛpəbɒks/, U.S.

/ˈpɛpərˌbɑks/

Forms: see pepper n. and box n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pepper n., box n.²

Etymology: < pepper n. + box n.² With sense A. 1a compare German Pfefferbüchse (16th cent. as pfefferpichsz in this sense).

A. n.

a. A small box with a (usually domed) perforated lid, used for sprinkling pepper on food; a pepper pot. Now chiefly archaic and historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > pepper-pot

pepper-hornlOE

pepperbox1543

pepper castor1676

pepperpot1679

pepper shaker1889

pepperette1893

pepper1897

1543 Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary (1831) 96 A litle peper Boxe siluer & gilt.

1546 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 86 A peper box, weying vj oz. iij quarters.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 135 Hee cannot creepe into a halfe-penny purse, nor into a Pepper-Boxe .

1660 S. Pepys Diary 24 Oct. (1970) I. 273 To be angry with my wife..about her putting up of half a crowne of mine in a pepper box.

1707 Boston News-let. 17 Feb. 2/2 One Peppar Box, a large Porringer.

a1782 R. Graves Fable in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1782) V. 70 The pepper-box..upon the table.

1867 J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Baltic xvii. 205 There is..the blind that won't pull down or stop up, and the pepper-box that won't pepper.

1882 W. D. Howells Mod. Instance xiv. 175 Besides the caster, there was a bottle of Leicestershire sauce on the table, and salt in what Marcia thought a pepper-box.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) viii. 103 The madreporite is perforated, like the lid of a pepper-box.

1992 S. Holloway Courage High! x. 87/2 The pot is made in the shape of a large pepper box.

b. In allusive expressions, referring to the action or appearance of a pepperbox. Also attributive in pepperbox spelling. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1821 Sporting Mag. 7 273/2 Both now began to slash away, and the pepper box was handed from one to another.

1898 Argosy July 648 One of those rapid fire guns will make a pepper box of him in no time.

1901 Daily News 25 Feb. 6/2 The swarm of nonentities upon whom..the pepper-box of titles is shaken.

1948 J. R. Firth in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 178 The Romans and the English managed to dispense with those written signs called ‘accents’ and avoided pepperbox spelling.

1948 N. Nicholson Coll. Poems (1994) 132 The poppy shakes its pepper-box of seed.

2. Something regarded as resembling a pepperbox.

a. Frequently depreciative. A small cylindrical turret or cupola. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > turret > of specific shape

roundel1633

pepperbox1763

rounder1774

pepperpot1838

pepper castor1855

1763 G. Colman in Terræ Filius 7 July 45 A queer Sort of Building, Ma'am, said young Bonus,—a mere Pepper-Box,—and there,—(pointing to the Turrets of All Souls) there are the Sugar-Casters.

1804 G. Huddesford Wiccamical Chaplet 172 (title of poem) The Pepper-box. On the erection of a shabby clock-house on the roof of the spacious and venerable Cathedral of Winchester.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. xii. 292 The monotonous stone pepper-boxes, which, in modern Gothic architecture, are employed.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxii. 207 There are a score [of pictures] under the old pepper-boxes in Trafalgar Square as fine as the best here.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 144 I wish some dark-faced man could have..fearless gone up the pavilion, in that pepper-box aloft and alone.

b. An early type of gun in which five or six barrels revolve round a central axis. Also pepperbox pistol, pepperbox revolver.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of

six-shooter1844

five-shooter1848

belt revolver1853

six-shooting1858

pepperbox1861

service revolver1864

navy1867

six chamber1877

forty-five1881

pepper castor1889

hip revolver1897

six-gun1912

six chamber revolver1922

police special1935

thirty-two1942

thirty-eight1953

1861 Richmond (Va.) Examiner 7 Dec. 3/2 The pistol is one of the old-fashioned pepper-box sort—self-cocking, and..is regarded as dangerous at either end.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It ii. 23 An old original ‘Allen’ revolver, such as irreverent people called a ‘pepper-box’.

1901 W. Churchill Crisis ii. xviii. 280 Out of his pocket hung the curved butt of a big pepper-box revolver.

1906 C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-Niner iii. 26 Donovan..jumped a claim, and when the rightful owner warned him off he drew an Allen's pepper box and shot Tracy.

1920 C. W. Sawyer Our Rifles 65 The rifle was made about 1855, when pepper-box pistols were in everyday use.

1990 ‘J. Gash’ Very Last Gambado (1991) xxv. 215 He fetched his weapons and laid them on a blanket... Three Tower service percussions.., a relic..flintlock barely clinging to its fractured walnut stock, and a pepperbox.

3. figurative. A hot-tempered person. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun] > irascible person

wasp1496

shit-fire1598

flesh-pistol1608

tinder-box1608

touchwood1617

Tartar1669

touch and go1675

spitfire1684

vengeance1712

spunkie1821

pepperbox1822

tempest1852

pepperer1864

gingersnap1889

pepperpot1894

spit-cat1898

spit kitten1912

slow burner1930

fireball1931

pop-off1938

1814 J. Galt Waychouse i. ii. 25 Ye're a welshman, and nae doubt as het in the temper, as a pepper box.]

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 174 The continual thwartings he receives from the genuine son of a pepper-box, old Christy.

1867 H. Kingsley Silcote (1876) xiii. 77 Make love to Dora, if the young pepper-box will let you.

1883 C. Reade & D. Boucicault Foul Play v. iii. 67 That is a good woman. But what a pepper-box!

1994 Washington Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. a1 In 1954, his former coach remembered him as ‘a pepper box and a terrific workhorse’—one who ‘wasn't even an average good player, but..he had spirit.’

4. In the Eton game of fives: a buttress which protrudes into the court from the left-hand wall (see quot. 1902).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > handball, etc. > [noun] > fives > court > parts of

pepperbox1865

step1890

hole1897

1865 W. L. Collins Etoniana Anc. & Mod. vii. 178 Any one who has seen the fives-courts [at Eton]..may have observed a small buttress projecting into the court..sometimes called ‘the pepper-box’.

1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 17 Then, when the loose ball came, clapping it into the pepper-box, dead.

1902 C. R. Stone Eton Gloss. 25 Pepper-box.—One of the great differences between Eton fives and Rugby fives is the pepper-box, the irregular buttress sticking into the court..imitated from the original fives court in the side of Upper Chapel... Originally pepper-box was the name applied only to the Dead Man's Hole, but now generally to the whole buttress.

1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 290/2 At the end of the step, projecting from the left-hand wall, is a buttress (known as ‘the pepper box’).

B. adj. (attributive).

Of (a part of) a tower or turret: that resembles a pepperbox in shape.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > dome or cupola > cylindrical

pepperbox1771

1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 203 A slender square tower with a pepper-box top.

1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 949 The pepper-box towers remind the spectator more of pigeon-houses than church steeples.

1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 103 Quaint pepper-box turrets, rope mouldings, crow-stepped gables.

1959 N. Kaye Gothic Cathedrals France 161 It rests on two enormous cylindrical piers..capped with pepper-box watch-turrets like the defences of a fortress.

1994 E. E. Crain Hist. Archit. Caribbean Islands Gloss. 246 Pepperbox turret, circular turret with a conical or domical roof.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pepperbox
释义	pepperboxn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɛpəbɒks/, U.S. /ˈpɛpərˌbɑks/ Forms: see pepper n. and box n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pepper n., box n.² Etymology: < pepper n. + box n.² With sense A. 1a compare German Pfefferbüchse (16th cent. as pfefferpichsz in this sense). A. n. 1. a. A small box with a (usually domed) perforated lid, used for sprinkling pepper on food; a pepper pot. Now chiefly archaic and historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > pepper-pot pepper-hornlOE pepperbox1543 pepper castor1676 pepperpot1679 pepper shaker1889 pepperette1893 pepper1897 1543 Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary (1831) 96 A litle peper Boxe siluer & gilt. 1546 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 86 A peper box, weying vj oz. iij quarters. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 135 Hee cannot creepe into a halfe-penny purse, nor into a Pepper-Boxe . View more context for this quotation 1660 S. Pepys Diary 24 Oct. (1970) I. 273 To be angry with my wife..about her putting up of half a crowne of mine in a pepper box. 1707 Boston News-let. 17 Feb. 2/2 One Peppar Box, a large Porringer. a1782 R. Graves Fable in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1782) V. 70 The pepper-box..upon the table. 1867 J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Baltic xvii. 205 There is..the blind that won't pull down or stop up, and the pepper-box that won't pepper. 1882 W. D. Howells Mod. Instance xiv. 175 Besides the caster, there was a bottle of Leicestershire sauce on the table, and salt in what Marcia thought a pepper-box. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) viii. 103 The madreporite is perforated, like the lid of a pepper-box. 1992 S. Holloway Courage High! x. 87/2 The pot is made in the shape of a large pepper box. b. In allusive expressions, referring to the action or appearance of a pepperbox. Also attributive in pepperbox spelling. Now rare. ΚΠ 1821 Sporting Mag. 7 273/2 Both now began to slash away, and the pepper box was handed from one to another. 1898 Argosy July 648 One of those rapid fire guns will make a pepper box of him in no time. 1901 Daily News 25 Feb. 6/2 The swarm of nonentities upon whom..the pepper-box of titles is shaken. 1948 J. R. Firth in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 178 The Romans and the English managed to dispense with those written signs called ‘accents’ and avoided pepperbox spelling. 1948 N. Nicholson Coll. Poems (1994) 132 The poppy shakes its pepper-box of seed. 2. Something regarded as resembling a pepperbox. a. Frequently depreciative. A small cylindrical turret or cupola. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > turret > of specific shape roundel1633 pepperbox1763 rounder1774 pepperpot1838 pepper castor1855 1763 G. Colman in Terræ Filius 7 July 45 A queer Sort of Building, Ma'am, said young Bonus,—a mere Pepper-Box,—and there,—(pointing to the Turrets of All Souls) there are the Sugar-Casters. 1804 G. Huddesford Wiccamical Chaplet 172 (title of poem) The Pepper-box. On the erection of a shabby clock-house on the roof of the spacious and venerable Cathedral of Winchester. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. xii. 292 The monotonous stone pepper-boxes, which, in modern Gothic architecture, are employed. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxii. 207 There are a score [of pictures] under the old pepper-boxes in Trafalgar Square as fine as the best here. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 144 I wish some dark-faced man could have..fearless gone up the pavilion, in that pepper-box aloft and alone. b. An early type of gun in which five or six barrels revolve round a central axis. Also pepperbox pistol, pepperbox revolver. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of six-shooter1844 five-shooter1848 belt revolver1853 six-shooting1858 pepperbox1861 service revolver1864 navy1867 six chamber1877 forty-five1881 pepper castor1889 hip revolver1897 six-gun1912 six chamber revolver1922 police special1935 thirty-two1942 thirty-eight1953 1861 Richmond (Va.) Examiner 7 Dec. 3/2 The pistol is one of the old-fashioned pepper-box sort—self-cocking, and..is regarded as dangerous at either end. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It ii. 23 An old original ‘Allen’ revolver, such as irreverent people called a ‘pepper-box’. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis ii. xviii. 280 Out of his pocket hung the curved butt of a big pepper-box revolver. 1906 C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-Niner iii. 26 Donovan..jumped a claim, and when the rightful owner warned him off he drew an Allen's pepper box and shot Tracy. 1920 C. W. Sawyer Our Rifles 65 The rifle was made about 1855, when pepper-box pistols were in everyday use. 1990 ‘J. Gash’ Very Last Gambado (1991) xxv. 215 He fetched his weapons and laid them on a blanket... Three Tower service percussions.., a relic..flintlock barely clinging to its fractured walnut stock, and a pepperbox. 3. figurative. A hot-tempered person. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun] > irascible person wasp1496 shit-fire1598 flesh-pistol1608 tinder-box1608 touchwood1617 Tartar1669 touch and go1675 spitfire1684 vengeance1712 spunkie1821 pepperbox1822 tempest1852 pepperer1864 gingersnap1889 pepperpot1894 spit-cat1898 spit kitten1912 slow burner1930 fireball1931 pop-off1938 1814 J. Galt Waychouse i. ii. 25 Ye're a welshman, and nae doubt as het in the temper, as a pepper box.] 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 174 The continual thwartings he receives from the genuine son of a pepper-box, old Christy. 1867 H. Kingsley Silcote (1876) xiii. 77 Make love to Dora, if the young pepper-box will let you. 1883 C. Reade & D. Boucicault Foul Play v. iii. 67 That is a good woman. But what a pepper-box! 1994 Washington Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. a1 In 1954, his former coach remembered him as ‘a pepper box and a terrific workhorse’—one who ‘wasn't even an average good player, but..he had spirit.’ 4. In the Eton game of fives: a buttress which protrudes into the court from the left-hand wall (see quot. 1902). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > handball, etc. > [noun] > fives > court > parts of pepperbox1865 step1890 hole1897 1865 W. L. Collins Etoniana Anc. & Mod. vii. 178 Any one who has seen the fives-courts [at Eton]..may have observed a small buttress projecting into the court..sometimes called ‘the pepper-box’. 1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 17 Then, when the loose ball came, clapping it into the pepper-box, dead. 1902 C. R. Stone Eton Gloss. 25 Pepper-box.—One of the great differences between Eton fives and Rugby fives is the pepper-box, the irregular buttress sticking into the court..imitated from the original fives court in the side of Upper Chapel... Originally pepper-box was the name applied only to the Dead Man's Hole, but now generally to the whole buttress. 1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 290/2 At the end of the step, projecting from the left-hand wall, is a buttress (known as ‘the pepper box’). B. adj. (attributive). Of (a part of) a tower or turret: that resembles a pepperbox in shape. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > dome or cupola > cylindrical pepperbox1771 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 203 A slender square tower with a pepper-box top. 1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 949 The pepper-box towers remind the spectator more of pigeon-houses than church steeples. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 103 Quaint pepper-box turrets, rope mouldings, crow-stepped gables. 1959 N. Kaye Gothic Cathedrals France 161 It rests on two enormous cylindrical piers..capped with pepper-box watch-turrets like the defences of a fortress. 1994 E. E. Crain Hist. Archit. Caribbean Islands Gloss. 246 Pepperbox turret, circular turret with a conical or domical roof. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1543
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