pepperoni

Borrowed from Italian peperoni (“bell peppers”), the plural of peperone (“bell pepper”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɛpəˈɹəʊni/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/

pepperoni (countable and uncountable, plural pepperonis or pepperoni)

1. A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.

   Hypernyms: salami, sausage

   • 2006, George Galjan, Cops, Donuts, and Murder, page 107:

     He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.

   • 2019 September 5, Aisha Harris, “‘Jinn’ Review: A Not So Typical Coming-of-Age Story”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.)

2. Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.

   Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.

   Hypernym: pizza

   • 2023 September 6, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 September 2023:

     There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.

English pepperoni, from Italian peperone (“bell pepper”). The sense "chili" probably after German Peperoni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpepːero(ː)ni/, [ˈpe̞pːe̞ˌro̞(ː)ni]
• Rhymes: -oni
• Syllabification^(key): pep‧pe‧ro‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): pep‧pe‧ro‧ni

pepperoni

1. pepperoni (sausage)

   Synonym: pepperonimakkara

2. A type of longish, relatively mild, pickled, yellowish green chili, often served as condiment to doner kebab.

   Synonym: pepperonipaprika

3. synonym of pepperonipizza (“pepperoni, pepperoni pizza”)

• “pepperoni”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed from English pepperoni.

pepperoni m (plural pepperonis)

1. pepperoni (sausage)
2. pepperoni (pizza)

• (sausage): salami, saucisse
• (pizza): pizza

Unadapted borrowing from English pepperoni.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.pɛˈrɔ.ɲi/
• Rhymes: -ɔɲi
• Syllabification: pe‧ppe‧ro‧ni

pepperoni n (indeclinable)

1. pepperoni (spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper)

   Hypernym: salami

2. pepperoni (pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese, and pepperoni toppings)
3. peperoncino, friggitello (sweet Italian chili pepper of the species Capsicum annuum)

• pepperoni in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pepperoni in Polish dictionaries at PWN