Pepperpot (1791)
Barnhart
ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM
Mon Nov 18 09:36:07 UTC 2002
Bapopik at AOL.COM,Net writes:
> See the latest DARE for "pepperpot" (1794). This is from the
>American Periodical Series online. It is NOT "Philadelphia pepperpot."
>(I doubt I'll have time for that tomorrow in Temple). The citation is
>a mess to read, but it's what they have. Notice that "toad in a hole"
>appears as "toad in hell."
I was looking for examples of this and found DA has pepperpot from 1790
(DA) and 1698 (OED), for _Jamaica pepperpot_. I don't have the newest
DARE yet. Are these different? Philadelphia pepperpot usually has
tripe in it, I think.
Regards,
David Barnhart
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