un peppery

adjective

full of or tasting like pepper; hot; pungent.

of, pertaining to, or resembling pepper.

sharp or stinging: a peppery speech.

easily angered; bad-tempered; irritable; irascible: the peppery leader of a political faction.

Origin:
1690–1700; pepper + -y¹

Related forms

pep·per·i·ly, adverb

pep·per·i·ness, noun

un·pep·per·y, adjective

Synonyms
1. spicy. 3. biting. 4. hot-tempered, hot-headed, testy, choleric.

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peppery (ˈpɛpərɪ)

—*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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