peppery
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Peppery
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | flavoured with or tasting of pepper |
| 2. | quick-tempered; irritable |
| 3. | full of bite and sharpness: a peppery speech |
| 'pepperiness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Leaves occur on petioles, have distinctly toothed margins and emit a peppery-minty odor when crushed.
But perhaps the brightest thing about the picture is the excellent dialogue-peppery, amusing and sensitive in turn.
Washing over them all, the peppery white wine sauce also takes well to an ample dome of rice.
So easy and delicious, yet it had never occurred to me to highlight those peppery leaves in anything but a salad.
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