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pepper-pot en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of pepper pot.
   alt of pepper pot

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
pepper-pots	Number=Plur		lexicographic

pepper-pot en · VERB

Meanings

1. (New-Zealand, UK) To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
   • Although these would be of a maximum of 12 houses, he would prefer to pepper-pot rather than create the risk of "mini ghettos". 1997, Institute of Housing (Great Britain), Housing (volume 33, page 22)
   • In a government office not so long ago, we read an understandable petition from Europeans asking that these 'pepper-potted' people be removed, or they were going to move. 1982, Hans Mol, The fixed and the fickle: religion and identity in New Zealand, page 70:
   • Residential surveyors also say pepper-potting reduces the marketability of a house. 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods, page 222:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
pepper-potting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
pepper-potted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
pepper-potted	Tense=Past		lexicographic
pepper-pots	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic