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peppy

/ˈpɛpi/

peppy adjective: full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy.

peppy: full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy
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Adjective

peppy (comparative peppier, superlative peppiest)

  1. Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy
    • Cedric was not feeling peppy when he woke up two hours before dawn.
    Synonyms:
    energetic, lively, perky, sparky, zippy, full of pep, full of vim and vigor

Noun

peppy (countable and uncountable, plural peppies)

  1. (Australia, slang) A tree of species Agonis flexuosa, commonly known as Western Australian peppermint or peppermint tree.
    • "Busselton for example, you used to have these quarter-acre blocks with one big house on it and lots of peppy trees in the backyard. And now they've got three houses and no peppy trees," she said.2023 December 15, Govan, Alex, “Western ringtail possums burn paws on roofs, solar panels in hot summer weather”, in ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    • City engineering and works services director Oliver Darby told the Times three of the peppies had been lopped extensively and must now be removed along with the non-native, but transplantation of the remaining tree was being investigated.2018 March 9, Pelusey, Taelor, “Peppy tree transplant investigated”, in Busselton Dunsborough Times, West Australian Newspapers Limited

peppy meaning in Kannada

peppy in Kannada

ಚುರುಕಾದ, ಉತ್ಸಾಹಿ, ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಯ

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Forms of peppy

Adjective
comparativepeppier
superlativepeppiest
Noun
pluralpeppies

Origin of peppy

From pep + -y.

Words formed from peppy

Words that rhyme with peppy

Questions about peppy

What does peppy mean?
Peppy means full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy.
What is peppy in Kannada?
Peppy in Kannada is ಚುರುಕಾದ, ಉತ್ಸಾಹಿ, ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಯ. See Peppy meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is peppy?
Peppy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce peppy?
Peppy is pronounced /ˈpɛpi/.

Words near peppy in the dictionary

  1. Peppitt
  2. Pepple
  3. Peppler
  4. Pepplers
  5. Pepples
  6. peppy
  7. peps
  8. peps in one's step
  9. peps in one's steps
  10. peps up
  11. pepsi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peppy (page history and authors); peppy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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