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peppered

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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.
    Coordinate term: riddled
    • 2006, Luke Eric Lassiter, Invitation to Anthropology, 2nd edition, 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.
    • 2017 January 28, Abigail Edge, “Two nights on Milo Yiannopoulos's campus tour: as offensive as you'd imagine”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2017:
      Inside, professional hatemonger Milo Yiannopoulos is addressing an audience of around 400 people, peppered with bright red baseball caps.

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peppered

  1. simple past and past participle of pepper