pepper-pot

See also: pepper pot, and pepperpot

English

Noun

pepper-pot (plural pepper-pots)

1. Alternative form of pepper pot

Verb

pepper-pot (third-person singular simple present pepper-pots, present participle pepper-potting, simple past and past participle pepper-potted)

1. (UK, New Zealand) To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
   • 1982, Hans Mol, The fixed and the fickle: religion and identity in New Zealand, page 70:

     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.

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

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

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

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