单词 | peppery |
释义 | peppery/ˈpɛp(ə)ri![]() adjective 1Strongly flavoured with pepper or other hot spices: a hot, peppery dish...
Synonyms spicy, spiced, peppered, hot, highly seasoned, pungent, fiery, gingery, piquant, sharp 1.1Having a flavour or scent like that of pepper: nasturtiums have a peppery taste...
2(Of a person) irritable and sharp-tongued: retired generals are expected to be peppery Synonyms 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 informal snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky British informal narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head North American informal peckish, sorehead, soreheaded Australian/New Zealand informal snaky informal, dated miffy Derivativespepperiness![]()
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