Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pepperbox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English

Syllables: pep-per-box
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pepper shaker.

noun

A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.

noun

A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.

noun

A tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker.

noun

Any of the buildings of the Royal Academy and National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, having cupolas on the roof.

Slang

Example Sentences

"She had her knees up, resting her wrists on them; the pepperbox muzzle of a flechette pistol emerged from her hands."
"Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight."
"I also remember the old Royal Mews that stood on the site of the present trumpery National Gallery, with its too suggestive pepper-boxes; […]"
"Its architect, Wilkins, had the misfortune to be chosen to erect our much-abused National Gallery building, with its condemned "pepper-boxes" of cupolas; […]"

Etymology

From pepper + box.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

pepperboxes (plural)

Questions

What does pepperbox mean?: A pepper shaker.
Where does pepperbox come from?: From pepper + box.

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