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  • noun Alternative spelling of pepper pot.

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Examples

  • She is an entitled pepperpot nepot who has been given large amount of money and attention due to the fact that she is the daughter of someone famous (daddy) and someone rich

    Ace of Spades HQ 2010

  • She is an entitled pepperpot nepot who has been given large amount of money and attention due to the fact that she is the daughter of someone famous (daddy) and someone rich

    Ace of Spades HQ 2010

  • (using hand broadcasting or hand-held spreaders such as the "pepperpot") had been used for spot sowing onto prepared seedbeds, normally following a hot burn of the slash left after logging the site.

    4 Australian Experience 1981

  • 'pepperpot'; we spent nothing; we had no comforts, but from year to year, as the _sous_ were piled away in our hoard, we kept our eyes on the neighbouring acre of moorland.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • Ira came by each evening with a van full of hungry tourists, and she filled their bellies with saltfish and pepperpot, balls of cornmeal.

    White People Problems (part 2) Thomas Pluck 2011

  • And what was so civilization-threatening about the portly pepperpot anyway?

    How to Serve Dish Michael Musto 2011

  • Start with jazzy adjectives, as the New York Post's Page Six column did when it began calling famed presidential intern Monica Lewinsky a "portly pepperpot" in the mid-1990s.

    How to Serve Dish Michael Musto 2011

  • Ira came by each evening with a van full of hungry tourists, and she filled their bellies with saltfish and pepperpot, balls of cornmeal.

    White People Problems (part 2) Thomas Pluck 2011

  • It was a squat intimidating folly, circular for about two-thirds of its height but topped with an octagonal cupola like a pepperpot pierced with eight glazed slit windows, compass points of reflected light which gave it something of the look of a lighthouse.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • A reporter with the Associated Press wrote that the ships funnel had more holes than a pepperpot.

    The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

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  • "Meanwhile, in the jargon of town planners the word pepperpotting has been coined to refer to the practice of sprinkling social housing among areas of private housing, so that lower earners are not herded together in large estates." --Ian Brookes, "A different kettle of fish"

    October 8, 2009