Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A powdered seasoning made from sweet red peppers, ranging in flavor from mild to hot.
- noun A dark to deep or vivid reddish orange.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A condiment prepared from a cultivated form of
Capsicum annuum by grinding the dried peppers after removal of the seeds. It is much less pungent than the ordinary rod pepper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The dried ripened fruit of
Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable Powdered
spice made from dried and ground fruits ofsweet pepper (bell pepper ) orchili pepper (varieties of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking). - noun countable A variety of the spice.
- noun countable A dried but not yet ground fruit of
sweet pepper (bell pepper ) orchili pepper sold for use as a spice. - noun A bright reddish orange colour like that of the dried paprika.
- adjective Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- noun a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And, lest I have scared you off from the dish, subbing in paprika works just fine and both my kids were able to eat this when I made it.
Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo Laura 2009
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And, lest I have scared you off from the dish, subbing in paprika works just fine and both my kids were able to eat this when I made it.
Archive 2009-05-01 Laura 2009
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I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then).
Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo Laura 2009
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I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then).
Archive 2009-05-01 Laura 2009
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Not wanting to blow their heads off, though, my mom comprimised, taking two different cookbook recipes (one German, one Polish) and adding four different types of pepper instead of a ton of one specific kind (which would have been paprika from the Polish version).
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008
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Smoked Spanish paprika is nice too, and quite pretty.
The Other Egg Salad Lindy 2005
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You could also try making these using sweet smoked Spanish paprika, which is available in some supermarkets.
Top 100 Finger Foods Annabel Karmel 2009
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One of the spices is definitely Hungarian paprika, which is one of the main products made by Pride of Szeged.
Archive 2007-08-01 Kalyn Denny 2007
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I also add paprika, which is probably my favorite spice.
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The chorizos and the paprika are the main element there.
treeseed commented on the word paprika
Cool 2006 anime film about dreams.
February 18, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word paprika
Also an eponymous character therein.
According to imdb.com/find?q=paprika there are several films with this title.
February 18, 2008
treeseed commented on the word paprika
This is the film I meant:
Paprika (パプリカ) is a Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel Paprika, about a female research psychologist involved in a project to develop a device that will permit therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.
The film was directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse Studios and produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
_Wikipedia
February 18, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word paprika
Indeed: that's the only 2006 anime one. I just thought it was interesting that the title had been reused so often.
February 18, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word paprika
Usage/historical note can be found on chili.
December 6, 2016