Peppery

//ˈpɛpəɹi// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.
  2. 2
    Having a fiery temperament. figuratively

    "a peppery old Army major"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having the piquant burning taste of peppers wordnet

Synonyms

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pepperishalertbeanybriskburningcholeric

Example

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"At the Stag and Antlers old Mrs. Crocket, than whom no old woman in the public line was ever more generous, more peppery, or more kind, kept two clean bedrooms, and could cook a leg of Dartmoor mutton and make an apple pie against any woman in Devonshire."

Etymology

From pepper + -y.

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