Peppery

Quick meaning: Peppery is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.

Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Having a fiery temperament.

Example Sentences

a peppery old Army major

For I'm a peppery potentate, / Who's little inclined his claim to bate, / To fit the wit of a bit of a chit, / And that's the long and short of it!

"If Lord John Roxton would condescend----" "My dear George, don't be so peppery," said his wife, with her hand on the black mane that drooped over the microscope.

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.

Word Forms

• pepperier
• pepperiest

Synonyms for peppery

Depending on context, synonyms include hot, pungent, spicy, gingery.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spicy, gingery, pungent, hot, pepperlike, pepperish.

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