chilli

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From Nahuatl chilli

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Homophones: Chile, chile, chili, chilly

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Singular
chilli

Plural
chillis or chillies

chilli (plural chillis or chillies)

  1. The pungent fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum.
    The farmers’ market had a wide variety of chillis from anchos to jalepenos to habeneros.
  2. (uncountable) Chili con carne.
    I fancy having some chilli for dinner tonight. What about you, Sandra?
  3. (uncountable) Powdered chilli peppers, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
    I want to make this pasta spicy so I’m going to add some chilli to it.

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