chilli
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chilli
C17: from Spanish chile, from Nahuatl chilli
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Even the World Cup mascot, a chilli pepper with a sombrero, seemed to capture that spirit perfectly - bold, playful, and unmistakably ours.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Indonesians eat a hot sauce known as sambal made of chilli, garlic, shallots and aromatics with just about every meal.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Monthly inflation in Indonesia doubled in May, driven by food prices and particularly chilli in the hot sauce-addicted country, the BPS statistics agency said Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Some have seen success by using high-yielding, hybrid red chilli peppers which have shown resilience to disease.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
I’d done grilled prawns with lots of chilli and coriander, and we were drinking this delicious Chenin Blanc that he’d been given by a grateful client.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Born and raised in Hunan, he believed, "You can't be a revolutionary if you don't eat chillies".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
The peppers were then tested in a laboratory and Scoville scale, which measures the heat levels of chillies.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2024
Adding heat with chillies or pepper can also help by acting as a decoy to the bitterness.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024
Last year, Gregory Foster ate 10 Carolina Reaper chillies, which Guinness World Records has named the hottest in the world, at a record time of 33.15 seconds in San Diego, California.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
In the granary, unused for so long, I stored away half a bag of rice, two measures of dhal and nearly a pound of chillies.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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