peppered

English

Adjective

peppered (comparative more peppered, superlative most peppered)

1. Seasoned with pepper.
   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and their Preparation, page 168

     This heavily peppered soup was traditionally prepared to celebrate the rite of marriage in Languedoc.

2. Speckled.
   • 2006, Luke Eric Lassiter, Invitation to Anthropology‎, 2nd ed., page 8

     Prior to 1900, within the population of peppered moths the vast majority were lightly peppered; but a very few were heavily peppered in their pigmentation.

Translations

seasoned with pepper

• Greek: πιπεράτος (el) (piperátos) m

• Latin: piperātus (la)

speckled — see speckled

Verb

peppered

1. simple past tense and past participle of pepper