Peppery
['pep(ə)rɪ] or ['pɛpəri]
Definition
(adj.) having the piquant burning taste of peppers; 'corn chips with peppery salsa' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.
(a.) Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Hot, pungent, high-seasoned.[2]. Irritable, irascible, touchy, testy, waspish, snappish, snarling, churlish, choleric, petulant, excitable, passionate, hasty, quick, like tinder, like touch-wood.
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Examples
- He was a small, stout man with a red face and a peppery manner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He isn't one of the cool, stiff Englishmen, but is rather peppery, for he has Scotch blood in him, as one might guess from his bonnie blue eyes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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