Pepsi

English

Alternative forms

• pepsi (nonstandard)

Etymology

Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage. Nonetheless, both the words pepsin and dyspepsia ultimately derive from Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis), which means “cooking, fermentation or digestion”. (Compare Italian pepsi, from the same source.) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

(person from Quebec): In reference to their supposed love of junk food.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĕpʹsē, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛpsi/

Proper noun

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Pepsi

Wikipedia

Pepsi

1. A brand of carbonated cola non-alcoholic drink produced by the company PepsiCo.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pepsi.

Derived terms

• Pepsi Challenge
• Pepsi paradox

Translations

Noun

Pepsi (plural Pepsis)

1. A serving of Pepsi.

   I'll have a Pepsi with that.

2. (slang, ethnic slur) A person from Quebec, Canada.
   • 1993, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, volume 20, page 276:

     […] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]

Descendants

• → French: pepsi
• → Hindi: पेप्सी (pepsī)
• → Mauritian Creole: pepsi
• → Polish: pepsi
• → Portuguese: Pepsi, pepsi
• → Serbo-Croatian: Pepsi, pepsi

Translations

Anagrams

• PIPEs, Seipp, pipes

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

Pepsi n (Cyrillic spelling Пепси)

1. Pepsi (brand of carbonated cola non-alcoholic drink produced by the company Pepsi)

Declension