Peppily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a peppy manner.

    "“I don’t want to vote for any of you, to be honest!” scolded a 61-year-old retired accountant when Mr. Herbert appeared peppily at her front door, holding a Tory leaflet and wearing a jaunty turquoise Tory ribbon."

Example

More examples

"“I don’t want to vote for any of you, to be honest!” scolded a 61-year-old retired accountant when Mr. Herbert appeared peppily at her front door, holding a Tory leaflet and wearing a jaunty turquoise Tory ribbon."

Etymology

From peppy + -ly.

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