peppery

adjective (peppery, more peppery, most peppery)

«peppery» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

Tasting hot and spicy, full of pepper. tree →
Quick to get angry; bad-tempered. tree →

In the lessons

In cooking, peppery food is spicy; rocket and watercress taste peppery. In Alice in Wonderland the Duchess's kitchen is full of pepper, so everyone sneezes, and the Duchess is peppery in temper too. In stories, «a peppery old colonel» shouts a lot.

Examples

The soup was very peppery. tree →
In the Duchess's kitchen there was far too much pepper. tree →
Rocket leaves have a peppery taste. tree →
The peppery old man shouted at the boys. tree →
This sauce is too peppery for the baby. tree →
Watercress tastes slightly peppery. tree →

Note

From «pepper» + «-y». Peppery temper = gets cross easily.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «peppery» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«peppery» in the school dictionary on Mova free.

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