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Peppery   Listen
adjective
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



... exclaimed Warren. "Doctor John wouldn't do such a thing. He is just a hot-tempered, peppery ...
— The Lost Despatch • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... was Colonel Desha, of Kentucky, whose horse, Rogue, had won the Carter Handicap through Garrison's poor riding of the favorite, Sis. His daughter was expostulating with him, trying to insert the true version of the affair between her father's peppery exclamations of "Occupying my seat!" "I saw him raise his hat to you!" "How dare he?" "Complain to the management against these outrageous flirts!" "Abominable ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
... condescending air he was wont to assume in general society made it a little difficult for a stranger to believe that he could actually be the most popular person in the county; especially as it was not hard to discover that his temper could easily become peppery upon provocation. If, however, the stranger chanced to provide the worthy baronet with even the smallest opening of exhibiting his extraordinary kindness of heart—were it only by getting wet in a shower or mislaying a walking stick, he would quickly comprehend. ...
— Simon • J. Storer Clouston
... the fact that, during the whole of this scene, her mate stood on the fence within a dozen feet, and looked on! Did he think her capable of managing her own affairs? Did he prefer to be on good terms with his peppery neighbor? or was it because with her it would be a war of words, while if he entered the arena it must be a fight? as we sometimes see, when a man goes home fighting drunk, every man of the neighborhood keeps out of sight, while all the women go out and help his wife to get him home. ...
— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller
... or two of the village traditions concerning Crabbe. One of these is to the effect that he spoke "through his nose," which I take to have been the local explanation of a marked Suffolk accent which accompanied the poet through life. Another, that he was peppery of temper, and that an exceedingly youthful couple having presented themselves for holy matrimony, Crabbe drove them with scorn from the altar, with the remark that he had come there to marry "men and women, ...
— Crabbe, (George) - English Men of Letters Series • Alfred Ainger


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