hasenpfeffer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hasenpfeffer
1890–95; < German, equivalent to Hasen-, combining form of Hase hare + Pfeffer pepper
Example Sentences
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Into the Bronx restaurant where he worked as chef there had walked one evening a sleek fat man who had called for a dish of hasenpfeffer, Chef Meringer's specialty.*
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Ah well, Delaware's state bird is the blue hen chicken, and that's surely better than hasenpfeffer.
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As one of his contributors told me: T saw my articles appear in print colored with such words as privatdozent, geheimrat, bierbruder, and hasenpfeffer which mystified my friends because I don't know German.'
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