Bepepper

/bɪˈpɛpɚ/ verb

To season heavily with pepper or to sprinkle pepper on something; to scatter or dot as if with pepper.

From 'be-' prefix + 'pepper'. In Early Modern cooking and figurative language, this verb meant to coat with pepper or, metaphorically, to scatter things thickly like pepper grains.

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