[
UK
/pˈɛpəɹi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having the piquant burning taste of peppers
corn chips with peppery salsa
How To Use peppery In A Sentence
- The addition of the peppery radishes is a new twist on the classic idea of using baby turnips.
- I discovered by accident that its peppery flavour is complemented by coriander. Times, Sunday Times
- The 1999 is a peppery, luscious wine of considerable complexity and intensity.
- Once in the mouth, elegant and effortless waves of nuts, red fruits and peppery spice roll over the palate and stay long after the finish.
- It arrived, aromatic strips of grilled meat on a mound of arugula with a crisp baked potato and a drizzle of peppery olive oil.
- But only temporarily, because the depth returns, although when it does, the hints of Mitsouko's trademark buttery powderiness are replaced with what I would describe as peppery powderiness. Guerlain Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus: Perfume Review
- Serve with peppery leaves and a lemony dressing. Times, Sunday Times
- It was a red wine, flavoured with ginger, cinnamon and grains of paradise (a peppery spice from tropical west Africa) and sweetened either with honey or (if you could afford it) with sugar.
- This example shows meaty aromas with peppery spice and black fruit aromas of attractive intensity.
- Stumpie's an awfu 'peppery budy, an' though the Smith leuch when he made his joke at the tailor's precentin ', Mertin got as raised as a wasp, and he yattered back -- "You'll maybe be better aff i' the ither place, wi 'your auld horse shune an' your smiddy reek, ye auld acowder ---- My Man Sandy