单词 | peppered |
释义 | pepperedadj. Sprinkled or seasoned with pepper. Also figurative in various senses: sprinkled with small dots like grains of pepper, pelted with shot, etc., †infected with venereal disease (cf. pepper v. 5b) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [adjective] > peppered peppered1581 piperate1683 cayenned1803 the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > speckling > speckled freckledc1380 specked1382 specky1382 splecked1382 peckleda1400 speckleda1400 pleckedc1410 frecknyc1440 sparkled1480 spurtled1513 sprittleda1522 spreckled1535 speckle1536 pickled1552 spink1558 bespecked1565 spanged1582 spinked1588 spangled1590 dotted1601 bespeckled1607 peppery1610 peppered1694 fleckled1700 spankled1703 speckly1705 pounced1727 punctulateda1728 dotty1795 punctulate1845 naevose1847 peckly1859 polka-dotted1872 stippled1876 oatmeal1880 guttulate1887 naevous1890 stipply1892 thrush-breast1896 skittery1955 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. iii. 182 Sele þonne gepiporodne wyrtdrenc. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 176 The more shee was pressed & courted with the pepered alurements of ye valiant souldior of loue, the more did she rampire her selfe in assurance of vertue. 1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 200 The peperit beif can tailȝe be the threid. 1650 T. Venner Via Recta (rev. ed.) ix. 259 Salt, and peppered meats. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 237 Those whom Venus is said to rule, as..pepper'd, clapt and pox'd Dabblers. 1712 E. Ward Quack-vintners 10 For B— and H— are destructive Foes To Covent-Garden Punks, and pepper'd Beaus. 1795 Sporting Mag. 5 49 The peppered tails returned as they came. 1848 G. Lippard Paul Ardenheim ii. i. 229 It was so very affecting. It worked upon me like peppered brandy. 1873 Spectator 22 Feb. 237/1 A bit of ‘peppered tongue’, not worth an answer, and hardly worth an action. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 115 Fat mutton pieces..ladled out in thick peppered flour-fattened sauce. 1992 Gourmet Sept. 45/3 From the Middle East comes baba ghanouj and hummus..which make an ample meal with olives, peppered tomatoes and cucumbers. Compounds peppered moth n. the geometrid moth Biston betularia, which is typically white speckled with black, the occurrence of predominantly black forms of which in smoke-polluted areas being cited as the classic example of industrial melanism. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > biston betularia (peppered moth) peppered moth1766 pepper moth1864 1766 M. Harris Aurelian 37 (heading) The Pepper'd [moth]. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. Index 269/1 Peppered M[oth]. 1903 F. E. Hulme Butterflies & Moths vi. 225 The insect..is..called the Peppered Moth, or, in the words of some old entomologists, the Pepper and Salt. 1999 S. Jones Almost like Whale iv. 77 Melanics turned up in peppered moths in the industrial parts of Europe, and, from 1906 in North America also. peppered steak n. = pepper steak n. at pepper n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > steak dishes Scots collops1657 Scotch collops1664 porterhouse steak1842 Chateaubriand1877 plank steak1904 steak tartare1911 churrasco1917 Swiss steak1932 tournedos Rossini1937 pepper steak1939 cheesesteak1941 steak au poivre1953 steak Diane1957 carpet-bag steak1958 peppered steak1960 1960 J. Donon Classic French Cuisine v. 130 (heading) Steak au Poivre (Peppered Steak). 1973 D. MacKenzie Postscript to Dead Let. 30 A Czech couple who serve the best peppered steak in town. 2001 Your Garden Jan. 70/3 Rocket has a tendency to bolt which is a bonus as the flowers taste like peppered steak! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.eOE |
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