pepper pot

• pepperpot, pepper-pot (in attributive use)

pepper pot (plural pepper pots)

1. A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper
2. A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.
3. (figurative) A person who is hot tempered; a feisty or argumentative person.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     An unfortunate quarrel between our pepperpots marked the outset of our new stage.

• (container for pepper): peppershaker
• (soup): Philadelphia pepper pot

• pepper mill