peppercorny

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adjective

Resembling or full of peppercorns.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adjectivepeppercorny (comparative more peppercorny, superlative most peppercorny)

comparative more peppercorny · superlative most peppercorny

  1. Resembling or full of peppercorns.

    If the clove-like sweetness of this dried berry seems familiar, that's because it's allspice—albeit more dusty and peppercorny than what you get in the States.

    2013, Eric Werner, Mya Henry, Hartwood: Bright, Wild Flavors from the Edge of the Yucatán, page 48
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    Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.

    1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Origin

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