Pepsi
English
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Etymology
Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage. Nonetheless, both the words pepsin and dyspepsia ultimately derive from Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis), which means “cooking, fermentation or digestion”. (Compare Italian pepsi, from the same source.) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
(person from Quebec): In reference to their supposed love of junk food.
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Proper noun
Pepsi
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pepsi.
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Noun
Pepsi (plural Pepsis)
- A serving of Pepsi.
- I'll have a Pepsi with that.
- (slang, ethnic slur) A person from Quebec, Canada.
- 1993, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, volume 20, page 276:
- […] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]
Descendants
- → French: pepsi
- → Hindi: पेप्सी (pepsī)
- → Mauritian Creole: pepsi
- → Polish: pepsi
- → Portuguese: Pepsi, pepsi
- → Serbo-Croatian: Pepsi, pepsi
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Noun
Pepsi n (Cyrillic spelling Пепси)
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pekʷ-
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
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