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- adjective
Seasoned withpepper . - adjective
Speckled . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pepper .
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Examples
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So, when we say, you know, peppered -- and this is, I think, where the term peppered came in, is you have these tiny little pellets -- and, by the way, they're still lead, right?
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My understanding of being peppered, is when shot hits someone on its fall to earth.
EDITORIAL: The Cheney hunting accident: a Texan's view of the so-called "Texas hunting protocol" Dave Hurteau 2006
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The two-page-long letter, written in Hindi peppered with Urdu, is in the form of a notice to the Indian government and a warning to India's Hindus.
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The harsh screaming coming from Mrs. Ling’s apartment had dwindled to pleas for help in English, peppered with swearing in Mandarin.
A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006
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Torture and terror, two terms peppered across the pages of newspapers, spouted from the mouths of news-anchors and stamped across countless websites throughout the first decade of the 21st century, but rarely used to describe the Israeli government's policies towards Palestinians over the last six decades.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Israeli Attack on Gaza Aid Ship Offers Obama Golden, but Risky Opportunity 2010
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Matt must be doing something right to incite such an ill-tempered F-word peppered diatribe.
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Mr L and I have just completed The Wire, which has left our domestic slang peppered with Baltimore slang 'Imma re-up on Lenor in the Ocado this week, a'igt?'
Evening Standard - Home Lauren Laverne 2012
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If you go to the Braves 'franchise records, which date all way back into the 1870s, you'll find Smoltz's name peppered throughout the pitching boards.
FanHouse 2009
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The bad guys "peppered" infections on NDTV web pages featuring Olympic content.
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The next day I had a hot pastrami sandwich, chopped pastrami in some kind of peppered slightly goopy sauce in a panino, at Surfa's cafe that was so good, my eyes filled with tears.
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