peppered

comparative more peppered · superlative most peppered

1. Seasoned with pepper.

   This heavily peppered soup was traditionally prepared to celebrate the rite of marriage in Languedoc.

   2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and their Preparation, page 168

2. Speckled.

   Inside, professional hatemonger Milo Yiannopoulos is addressing an audience of around 400 people, peppered with bright red baseball caps.

   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, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2017

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   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.

   2006, Luke Eric Lassiter, Invitation to Anthropology, 2nd edition, page 8

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of pepper