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a peppery temper

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  • peppery — adjective Date: 1699 1. of, relating to, or having the qualities of pepper ; hot, pungent < a peppery taste > 2. having a hot temper ; touchy < a peppery boss > 3. fiery, stinging < a peppery …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • peppery — /ˈpɛpəri/ (say pepuhree) adjective 1. resembling pepper; full of pepper; pungent. 2. of or relating to pepper. 3. sharp or stinging, as speech. 4. irascible or irritable, as persons or their temper. –pepperiness, noun …  

  • pep|per|y — «PEHP uhr ee», adjective. 1. full of pepper; like pepper: »Figurative. Some good, strong, peppery doctrine (Dickens). 2. hot; sharp. 3. Figurative. a) having a hot temper; easily made angry: »Pettingil, whose peppery temper was well known among… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Aunt Gertrude — Hardy Boys Character name= Gertrude Hardy gender= Female hometown= Bayport occupation= Homemaker affiliation= relatives= Brother: Fenton Hardy Sister in law: Laura Hardy Nephews: Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy appearance= The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower… …   Wikipedia

  • List of The Hardy Boys characters — Many characters have appeared in the fictional series of books about The Hardy Boys. Contents 1 Frank Hardy 1.1 Character history 1.1.1 Original series 1.1.2 Casefiles …   Wikipedia

  • Pevie — This very unusual and interesting name is of early medieval origin and derives from the Anglo Norman French word Pivre , meaning pepper , used as a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in pepper, a pepperer or spicer. The English name is… …   Surnames reference

  • Irascibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irascibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility irascibleness temper Sgm: N 1 crossness crossness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 susceptibility susceptibility procacity petulance irritability …   English dictionary for students

  • irascibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Tendency to become angry Nouns 1. irascibility, temper; crossness; petulance, irritability, pugnacity, contentiousness, excitability; bad, hot, fiery, or quick temper, hot blood; ill humor, surliness,… …   English dictionary for students

  • irascible — irascible, choleric, splenetic, testy, touchy, cranky, cross mean easily angered or enraged. Irascible implies the possession of a fiery or inflammable temper or a tendency to flare up at the slightest provocation {the irascible but kindhearted… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • hot — I. adjective (hotter; hottest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hāt; akin to Old High German heiz hot, Lithuanian kaisti to get hot Date: before 12th century 1. a. having a relatively high temperature b. capable of giving a sensation… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • hot — hotly, adv. hotness, n. /hot/, adj., hotter, hottest, adv., v., hotted, hotting, n. adj. 1. having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee. 2. having or causing a sensation of great bodily heat; attended with or… …   Universalium

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