pepper pot

noun

1

British : pepperbox sense 1

2

a

: a highly seasoned West Indian stew of vegetables and meat or fish

b

: a thick soup of tripe, meat, dumplings, and vegetables highly seasoned especially with crushed peppercorns

called also Philadelphia pepper pot

Examples of pepper pot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

By providing cheap, nourishing food for working Philadelphians, pepper pot sellers could be seen as participating in a kind of informal mutual aid. — Carolyn Zola, The Conversation, 11 June 2026

Other traditional Kwanzaa dishes include jambalaya, black-eyed peas, pepper pot soup and curry dishes, with a large emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables of the harvest. — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2022

Scotch bonnets star in several of the island's iconic dishes, including escovitch fish, pepper pot soup and curry goat. — Terry Ward, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022

On the menu, find plantain chips, albacore ceviche, or pink pineapple to start; rotating fish in a rum butter sauce, wild boar pepper pot or jerk chicken as mains; and Bristol-Joseph's buttery take on roti is a must. — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 13 Oct. 2022

Unfortunately, running the electron beam through the pepper-pot destroys the beam—and possibly the pepper pot apparatus itself. — Douglas McCormick, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2012

Word History

First Known Use

1679, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for pepper pot

• aeronaut
• aforethought
• afterthought
• apricot
• argonaut
• astronaut
• camelot
• coffeepot
• concordat
• cosmonaut
• entrepot
• flowerpot