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.

   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.

Derived terms

• peppered moth
• unpeppered

Translations

seasoned with pepper

• Greek: πιπεράτος (el) m (piperátos)
• Latin: piperātus

speckled — see speckled

Verb

peppered

1. simple past and past participle of pepper