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Peppery   Listen
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Peppery  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.
2.
Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.





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"Peppery" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vista Tower. The lofty tower facing the east, she designated "the variegated and flowery Hall;" bestowing on the line of buildings, facing the west, the appellation of "the Hall of Occult Fragrance;" and besides these figured such further names as: "the Hall of peppery wind," "the Arbour of lotus fragrance," "the Islet of purple caltrop," "the Bank of golden lotus," and the like. There were also tablets with four characters such as: "the peach blossom and the vernal rain;" "the autumnal wind prunes the Eloecocca," ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... Bumblebee was worried. Every time he looked at the trumpeter she seemed in a more peppery temper than ever. Beside her, some of the other workers appeared positively pleasant. But the trumpeter wore a frown. And what was still worse, she wore ...
— The Tale of Buster Bumblebee • Arthur Scott Bailey
... minutes Scandalous wrestled with the thews of one of the embattled fowl's knee-joints. After a struggle in which the honours stood practically even, he laid down his knife and flirted a thumb toward a bottle of peppery sauce which stood on my side ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... a good meal of the lithodomes, which were then half opened to the sun. They ate them as oysters, and as they had a strong peppery taste, they were palatable without condiments ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne
... selfish; I'm seeking entertainment. And your peppery affairs promise it. Do you give me permission to take ...
— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd
... patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun-carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred-star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery-furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother-of-pearl; green parrot shells from ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne


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