Peppery means hot and sharp, like ground black pepper. A peppery sauce, peppery rocket, a peppery finish.
It describes a sharpness at the back of the throat rather than the burn of chilli, and it is the standard word for rocket, watercress and good olive oil. Of a person it means quick-tempered, and a peppery old colonel is nearly a stock character.
1adjectivepepperyHot and sharp, like ground black seeds.
“Rocket has a peppery taste that goes well with sweet tomatoes.”
Patternpeppery + noun (leaves, oil, flavour) · a peppery kick · pepper
peppery is a flavour.
PEPPERy → full of PEPPER
It is pepper + y: hot and sharp on the tongue, like a lot of black pepper.
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Ancient Greek
πέπερι
Latin
piper
Proto-West Germanic
*pipar
Old English
piper
Middle English
peper
English
pepper
English, today
peppery
From pepper + -y. pepper comes from Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic pipar, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι, from an inc - source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (“long pepper”), ultimately from dra; compare Tamil திப்பலி. The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, stq Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Norwegian Bokmål pepper, Norwegian Nynorsk pepar, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. a doublet of falafel and peepul.
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