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Webster 1828 Edition


Pepper-pot

PEP'PER-POT

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Noun.
A plant of the genus Capsicum.

Definition 2024


pepper-pot

pepper-pot

See also: pepper pot and pepperpot

English

Noun

pepper-pot (plural pepper-pots)

  1. Alternative form of pepper pot

Verb

pepper-pot (third-person singular simple present pepper-pots, present participle pepper-potting, simple past and past participle pepper-potted)

  1. (Britain, New Zealand) To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
    • 1982, Hans Mol, The fixed and the fickle: religion and identity in New Zealand (page 70)
      In a government office not so long ago, we read an understandable petition from Europeans asking that these 'pepper-potted' people be removed, or they were going to move.
    • 1997, Institute of Housing (Great Britain), Housing (volume 33, page 22)
      Although these would be of a maximum of 12 houses, he would prefer to pepper-pot rather than create the risk of "mini ghettos".
    • 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods (page 222)
      Residential surveyors also say pepper-potting reduces the marketability of a house.