pfeffern

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German

Etymology

Pfeffer (pepper) +‎ -en

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pfef‧fern
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Verb

pfeffern (weak, third-person singular present pfeffert, past tense pfefferte, past participle gepfeffert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to pepper (to add pepper to)
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to envigorate
  3. (transitive, colloquial) to fling, to hurl (to throw with violence)
    Sie pfefferte ihren Rucksack in die Ecke.She flung her backpack into the corner.
    Sometimes also used creatively with the prefixes weg-, hinein- etc.

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Further reading

  • pfeffern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • pfeffern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • pfeffern” in Duden online
  • pfeffern” in OpenThesaurus.de