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peppery adjective [ ˈpɛp(ə)ri ]

• strongly flavoured with pepper or other hot spices.
• "a hot, peppery dish"
Similar: spicy, spiced, peppered, hot, highly seasoned, pungent, fiery, gingery, piquant, sharp,
Opposite: mild, bland,
• (of a person) irritable and sharp-tongued.
• "retired generals are expected to be peppery"
Similar: irritable, peevish, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, hot-tempered, irascible, fiery, quick-tempered, impatient, complaining, querulous, curmudgeonly, bitter, acerbic, sour, caustic, moody, grumpy, huffy, brusque, surly, curt, gruff, scratchy, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, short-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, touchy, sharp-tongued, testy, tetchy, snappish, snarling, waspish, prickly, crusty, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric, snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head, peckish, sorehead, soreheaded, snaky, miffy,
Opposite: easy-going,


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