hot pepper
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2.0
- noun
- /hɑt ˈpɛpər/
:
pimiento picante
- The recipe calls for finely chopped hot pepper to enhance the flavor of the sauce.
- hot pepper sauce
- teaspoon of hot pepper
- garlic and hot pepper
And then the beef sandwich with the hot Peppers and dipped pretty damn good.
- And then the beef sandwich with the hot Peppers and dipped pretty damn good.
- There is such an amazing blend of sweet, mild hot Peppers in here.
- So when you eat something, you eat a slice of pizza and it's got some some some hot pepper on it, maybe some jalapeno.
- And now the next time when someone hands you a hot pepper like a habanero, now you know what you're in for and what to avoid.
- That was when we were kind of in the heyday of hot Peppers and gross stuff.
- And one in particular is about how well, he was talking about people eating hot Peppers.
Examples
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She loves adding hot pepper to her dishes to make them spicier.
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Remember that time you made me sleep in the car ’cause I ate that hot pepper and you thought I was possessed?
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I ate a hot pepper.
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And a lot of hot peppers.
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" Hey, look out for those hot peppers."
Fiction book (1992) -
Dip the meat in fish sauce with hot peppers and garlic.
Fiction book (2000) -
Garlic and hot pepper smells hung in the dusty daylight.
Fiction book (1998) -
There was hot pepper in the sausage, and she'd never tasted such a thing, never had any spices.
Fiction book (1999) -
Heck, the first time I ate a really hot pepper, I was about 6 (it was a Bird's Eye Chili).
Blog text (31) -
From Iberia come hot olives, hot peppers, and Spanish sauces.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
98
1.5
A small hot pepper with a pointed shape that adds spice to food
11
2.0
A long hot chili used fresh or dried to add spice to food
10
5.1
A dried, smoked jalapeño pepper that adds a smoky, spicy taste to food
9
1.0
A small red or green pod that makes food hot
5
9.3
A small hot pepper used to make food spicy
4
4.9
A small very hot chili pepper that makes food spicy
2
5.7
A plant from tropical America that grows long hot red peppers
1
3.0
A medium-hot green or red chili from Mexico used in cooking
1
6.2
A long thin red pepper that is very hot and makes food spicy
1
6.6
A dried chili pepper from Mexico with mild heat and rich red color
A long thin very hot pepper often red used to add heat to food
A tropical pepper plant that makes small very hot red peppers for hot sauces
A pepper plant from tropical America that has small very hot red fruits often used in cooking
A small plant from Central America with tiny red fruits that are very hot to eat
A small plant with tiny, very hot red peppers used in South American cooking
A small very hot red chili that people use to make hot sauce
A plant that grows red hot peppers used for hot sauce
A small round red fruit like a cherry that has a spicy taste
A plant that makes small hot fruits in a cone shape, often red or yellow
Antonyms
How Spicy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositional: 'hot' (spicy/burning flavor) modifies 'pepper' (the Capsicum fruit), so the combined meaning 'spicy pepper' is directly derivable from its parts. This adjectival-noun combination and the spicy sense of 'hot' are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase hot pepper comes from the clear image of a pepper that makes your mouth feel 'hot' or burning when you eat it. Here hot describes the spicy burn and pepper is the plant, so the name means a pepper used to add heat to food.