You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for February 20.

Today’s word is pepper, spelled p-e-p-p-e-r. The stress mark in this word falls on the first syllable.

Pepper (verb) [Transitive]: to add pepper to food

Pepper the steak well.

Also, “if bullets pepper something, they hit it several times.”

Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.

pepper somebody with questions [American English]

to ask someone a lot of questions, one after the other

Reporters peppered him with questions.

To pepper is also to add to something in many places:

He peppered his speech with jokes.

Interesting Fact:

salt-and-pepper (adjective)

Salt-and-pepper hair is a mixture of dark hairs and grey or white hairs.

George Clooney

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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