Pepperpot

The Ninth Doctor plays with salt and pepper shakers, clearly mocking the appearance of the Dalek race. (COMIC: Four Doctors)

A pepperpot was an object used to hold pepper.

Daleks were often compared to pepperpots in terms of appearance. A Venusian colonist called them "animated pepperpots". (COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks)

Vicki said that the Dalek casing on display in the Moroks' Space Museum on Xeros looked like "a giant pepperpot". (PROSE: The Space Museum)

On Vulcan, Kebble called them "big pepperpots". (TV: The Power of the Daleks)

The Second Doctor called them pepperpots on a jungle planet. (COMIC: Jungle Adventure) He also called them "metal pepperpots" while on another planet. (COMIC: Attack of the Daleks)

In November 1963, Rachel Jensen called them "a bunch of tin-plated pepperpots". (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

In 2012, Adam Mitchell described the Metaltron as a "great big pepperpot". (TV: Dalek)

In an alternate timeline, a fictionalised version of the Doctor who appeared in the film Daleks: The Ultimate Adventure said, "I am sending you mutated pepperpots straight back to Hell!" (AUDIO: Jubilee)