Prepper vs Pepper - What's the difference?
prepper | pepper |
(UK, slang) A student at a prep school.
(UK, slang) Prep school.
*2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
*:‘We have a vacancy at a very nice little prepper in North Yorkshire. Cundall Manor.’
A plant of the family Piperaceae.
(uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
A fruit of the capsicum: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
To add pepper to.
To strike with something made up of small particles.
To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
To add (something) at frequent intervals.
As nouns the difference between prepper and pepper
is that prepper is a student at a prep school while pepper is a plant of the family Piperaceae.As a verb pepper is
to add pepper to.prepper
English
Etymology 1
From prep (in (prep school)) + (-er).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
See prepare.pepper
English
Noun
- Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
Synonyms
* (fruit of the capsicum) ** (spicy) chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper ** (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepperDerived terms
* bell pepper * chili pepper * green pepper * hot pepper * pepper spray * red pepper * sweet pepper * tabasco pepper * white pepperVerb
(en verb)- After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
- He liked to pepper his conversation with long words.