Peppery

Definition: Peppery

Peppery

Adjective

1. Having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers; "gingery Chinese food"; "hot peppers"; "hot curry"; "corn chips with peppery salsa"; "spicy tomato sauce".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "peppery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Peppery

Irascibility

Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ".

Pungency

Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory .

Crosswords: Peppery

The Peppery Salt (1936)

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Music

• The Trial & Asylum of Peppery Penguin [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

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Albanian

zemërak (choleric, cross, grumpy, ornery, peevish, petulant, quick tempered, techy, tetchy, waspish), therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, nippy, penetrating, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant), me spec, me piper, i piperosur, gjaknxehtë (hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, irascible, irritable, quick tempered, short tempered, techy, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فلفلي, ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏حار (cordial, hot, nice and warm, thermal, torrid), ‏حاد الطبع (hot-headed, irritable, lively, peevish, quick tempered), ‏سريع الغضب (combustible, crusty, hasty, inflammable, irascible, irate, irritable, passionate, quick tempered, short tempered, tempestuous, testy, tetchy, ticklish, touchy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сприхав (breezy, combustible, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, snappy, spicy, testy, violent, waxy), хаплив (acerb, acerbic, acidulous, caustic, mordant, poignant, pungent, scratchy, severe, shrewd, tart), като пипер, остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), лют (angry, biting, fiery, hot, pungent, salt), посипан с пипер, парлив (acrid, burning, hot, sharp, stinging), пиперлия (hot). (various references)

Czech

prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), peprný (spicy), zlostný (angry, black, irascible), horkokrevný (fiery, hot-blooded, warm blooded). (various references)

Farsi 

فلفل دار, گرم (Ardent, Ebullient, Grain, Gram, Hot, Muggy, Perfervid, Thermal, Warm), تندوتیز (Ardent, Astringent, Nippy, Stringent), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), باروح (Airy, Allegro, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Lively, Racy, Snappy, Spunky). (various references)

French

poivré, piquant, mordant (penetrating), irrité, irascible. (various references)

German

pfefferig, gepfefferten. (various references)

Greek 

καυστικόσ (caustic, cutting, hot, poignant, scorching, sweltering, sweltery, torrid, vitriolic), πιπερώδησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפולפל (acute, fancy, spicy, subtle, tricky, witty), פלפולי, ר�'זן (bad tempered, cantankerous, crusty, ill tempered, irascible, petulant, tartar). (various references)

Hungarian

ingerlékeny (be irritated, bilious, excitable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, highly strung, hot tempered, hot-tempered, ill tempered, inflammable, irascible, irritable, like a bear with a sore head, nervous, nettlesome, neurotic, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, techy, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Italian

pepato, acre, pungente, pepato. (various references)

Manx

pibbyragh (pepper). (various references)

Pig Latin

epperypay

Portuguese

pimenteiro (caster, Castor, pepper, pepperbox, salt cellar), picante (acerbic, acrid, biting, home affairs, hot, jujitsu, mordacious, nippy, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, risque, rough, salty, Savory, savoury, sharp, spicy, stinging, tart), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, doubletree, incisor, keen, mordacious, pepper, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant, virulent), apimentado (piquant, spicy). (various references)

Romanian

piperat (juicy, salt, steep, swollen), picant (attractive, fruity, hot, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, salt, Savory, savoury, snappy, spicy), muşcãtor (acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, sarcastic, snappish), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), focos (ardent, fiery, high-mettled, hot tempered, match, mercurial, passionate, quick tempered, spirited), ardeiat (hot), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), agresiv (aggressive, aggressively, offensive, rampant, warlike). (various references)

Russian 

вспыльчивый (choleric, explosive, fiery, hair-trigger, hasty, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hot-spirited, hot-tempered, inflammable, irascible, ornery, quick tempered, quicktempered, short tempered, short-tempered, spitfire, testy, wildcat), наперченный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabiberen, vatren (ardent, burning, fiery, glowing, gushing, hot-blooded, igneous, perfervid, red-hot, spirited, spunky, torrid), ljut (angry, bitter, cross, grim, hot, huffish, mad, pissed, racy, severe). (various references)

Spanish

picante (biting, gamy, hot, itchy, juicy, naughty, nutty, piquancy, piquant, pointed, pungency, pungent, raciness, racy, salty, sharp, spice, spicy), mordaz (acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, blistering, cutting, incisive, mordacious, mordant, nipping, poignant, pointed, pungent, scathing, scorching, searing, sharp), irascible (hot tempered, irascible, techy, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Swedish

pepprig, pepparliknande, hetsig (excitable, fiery, hot, hot-headed, passionate, warm), ettrig (ding-dong, fiery, hot tempered, poisonous). (various references)

Turkish

huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), geçimsiz (cantankerous, difficult, out of tune, quarrelsome, unmusical), biberli, biber gibi, acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry). (various references)

Turkmen 

ajy (hot, spicy). (various references)

Ukranian 

наперчений, запальний (choleric, explosive, fiery, gingery, hard-nosed, hasty, heated, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, inflammable, inflammatory, ireful, ornery, passionate, quick tempered, short tempered, spunky, testy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

như h�" tiêu có nhiều tiêu, nóng tính châm biếm, chua cay (acrimonious, caustically, incisive, mordant, nipping, vitriolic), cay nóng nảy. (various references)

Misspellings

"Peppery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Geppert, papper, pappey, peper, pepere, peperit, pepoper, pepperd, Pippert, poepper, prepper. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pepper, preppy.

-2 letters: peery, peppy.

-3 letters: eery, eyer, eyre, peep, peer, perp, pree, prep, prey, pyre, repp.

-4 letters: ere, eye, pee, pep, per, pry, pye, ree, rep, rye, yep.

-5 letters: er, pe, re, ye.

+2 letters: eyepopper.

+3 letters: eyepoppers.

+4 letters: pepperminty.

+5 letters: propoxyphene.

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