pepper-pot

plural pepper-pots

1. alternativeAlternative form of pepper pot.

present singular third person pepper-pots · participle present pepper-potting · participle past pepper-potted · past pepper-potted

1. New ZealandUKTo intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.

   Residential surveyors also say pepper-potting reduces the marketability of a house.

   2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods, page 222

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   In a government office not so long ago, we read an understandable petition from Europeans asking that these 'pepper-potted' people be removed, or they were going to move.

   1982, Hans Mol, The fixed and the fickle: religion and identity in New Zealand, page 70

   Although these would be of a maximum of 12 houses, he would prefer to pepper-pot rather than create the risk of "mini ghettos".

   1997, Institute of Housing (Great Britain), Housing (volume 33, page 22)