pepper pot

短语

辣味炖锅, 费城胡椒羹, 胡椒粉盒, 辣味浓汤

词形变化

pepper pots 复数

别名

pepperpot

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.

  2. 2.

    A person who is hot tempered; a feisty or argumentative person.

    比喻
  3. 3.

    A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper.

  4. 4.

    A mushroom, Myriostoma coliforme.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

pepper shaker pepperbox Philadelphia pepper pot

上位词 2

soup shaker

词源

The mushroom sense (sense 2) arose because the mature fruiting body of the mushroom resembles a literal pepper pot (sense 1) and the spores that fly out of it resemble the granules of pepper being dispensed. The feisty-person sense (sense 4) arose because such a person figuratively adds spice to life, like a literal pepper pot (sense 1) does.

来源：wiktionary