peppery
/ˈpɛpəɹi/
peppery adjective: resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.
Adjective
peppery (comparative pepperier, superlative pepperiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.
- Having a fiery temperament.
- a peppery old Army major
- 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.1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 113
peppery meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Sinhala
peppery in Tamil
- கடுக்கெனல்
peppery in Malayalam
- മുളകുഗുണമുള്ള, എരിവുള്ള, തീക്ഷ്ണമായ, കുരുമുളകുപോലുള്ള
peppery in Kannada
- ಮೆಣಸಿನಂಥ, ಖಾರವಾದ, ಮೆಣಸು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿರುವ, ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣವಾದ, ಸಿಡುಕಿನ, ರೇಗುವ ಸ್ವಭಾವದ
peppery in Sinhala
- peppery
- තියුණු tiyuṇu
Examples of peppery in a sentence
- 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!1884, Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Ida:
- "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.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
Forms of peppery
| comparative | pepperier |
|---|---|
| superlative | pepperiest |
Origin of peppery
From pepper + -y.
Words formed from peppery
Questions about peppery
- What does peppery mean?
- Peppery means resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.
- What is peppery in Tamil?
- Peppery in Tamil is கடுக்கெனல். See Peppery meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use peppery in a sentence?
- 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!
- What part of speech is peppery?
- Peppery is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce peppery?
- Peppery is pronounced /ˈpɛpəɹi/ (US).
Words near peppery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: peppery (page history and authors); peppery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peppery (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peppery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); තියුණු (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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