peppery

«peppery» in Mova's school dictionary: Tasting hot and spicy, full of pepper — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (peppery, more peppery, most peppery)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tasting hot and spicy, full of pepper. tree →

2) Quick to get angry; bad-tempered. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking, peppery food is spicy; rocket and watercress taste peppery. In Alice in Wonderland the Duchess's kitchen is full of pepper, so everyone sneezes, and the Duchess is peppery in temper too. In stories, «a peppery old colonel» shouts a lot.

examples

• The soup was very peppery. tree →
• In the Duchess's kitchen there was far too much pepper. tree →
• Rocket leaves have a peppery taste. tree →
• The peppery old man shouted at the boys. tree →
• This sauce is too peppery for the baby. tree →
• Watercress tastes slightly peppery. tree →

note

From «pepper» + «-y». Peppery temper = gets cross easily.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «peppery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.