PEPPERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peppery mean? 

• PEPPERY (adjective)
  The adjective PEPPERY has 1 sense:

1. having the piquant burning taste of peppers

  Familiarity information: PEPPERY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEPPERY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the piquant burning taste of peppers

Context example:

corn chips with peppery salsa

Similar:

tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)

Derivation:

pepper (pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground)

 Context examples 

He was a small, stout man with a red face and a peppery manner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He isn't one of the cool, stiff Englishmen, but is rather peppery, for he has Scotch blood in him, as one might guess from his bonnie blue eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was an occasional tempest, and once Jo marched home, declaring she couldn't bear it longer, but Aunt March always cleared up quickly, and sent for her to come back again with such urgency that she could not refuse, for in her heart she rather liked the peppery old lady.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)