pepper pot
- noun
- UK
:
sopa de pimientos
- She prepared a traditional pepper pot for the family on a cold winter evening.
Examples
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I made a delicious pepper pot for dinner.
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The restaurant is famous for its pepper pot, a spicy soup served with warm bread.
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Many Caribbean cuisines have their own variation of pepper pot.
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The pepper pot was filled with fresh vegetables.
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For lunch, we enjoyed a hearty bowl of pepper pot, filled with vegetables and dumplings.
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The chef prepared a delicious pepper pot that was rich in flavor and perfect for a cold day.
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At the festival, I tried traditional pepper pot, which was spicy and packed with tender tripe.
Synonyms
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1.0
A hot dish of meat, fish, or vegetables cooked in water
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A thick soup or stew made from vegetables and sometimes meat, often eaten in the past
A spicy soup with cow tripe, vegetables, and pepper often with dumplings
A thick soup with meat and vegetables
How Spicy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is compositionally built from 'pepper' + 'pot', so a B1 learner who knows the words can reasonably infer something like a pot containing pepper or a strongly peppered stew. However, the precise traditional dish meaning (a thick soup often with tripe and dumplings) and its specific ingredients are culturally specific and not fully predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Pepper pot is the name of a thick, spicy Caribbean 'soup'. One popular story says cooks put lots of pepper and other spices in a large pot, so people simply called the dish pepper pot, which is why the name now means a hot, heavily seasoned 'soup'.