pepperish

English

Etymology

pepper +‎ -ish

Adjective

pepperish (comparative more pepperish, superlative most pepperish)

1. Synonym of peppery (“resembling or characteristic of pepper, the spice”)
2. Synonym of peppery (“having a fiery temperament”)
   • 2011, John Madson, Up on the River: People and Wildlife of the Upper Mississippi, page 221:

     He lived out his life in that cabin, crusty and pepperish to the end, surviving into the Age of Ecology to the discomfiture of earnest young hikers whom he confronted in the back country, […]