"pepperish" meaning in English

See pepperish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more pepperish [comparative], most pepperish [superlative]
Etymology: From pepper + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pepper|ish}} pepper + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} pepperish (comparative more pepperish, superlative most pepperish)
  1. Synonym of peppery (“resembling or characteristic of pepper, the spice”) Synonyms: peppery [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-pepperish-en-adj-6RheLIbU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ish: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51
  2. Synonym of peppery (“having a fiery temperament”) Synonyms: peppery [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-pepperish-en-adj-B6AxhJ9l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ish: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pepper",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "pepper + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pepper + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pepperish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pepperish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pepperish (comparative more pepperish, superlative most pepperish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of peppery (“resembling or characteristic of pepper, the spice”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-pepperish-en-adj-6RheLIbU",
      "links": [
        [
          "peppery",
          "peppery#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "resembling or characteristic of pepper, the spice",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "peppery"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              48,
              57
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2011, John Madson, Up on the River: People and Wildlife of the Upper Mississippi, page 221:",
          "text": "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, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of peppery (“having a fiery temperament”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-pepperish-en-adj-B6AxhJ9l",
      "links": [
        [
          "peppery",
          "peppery#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "having a fiery temperament",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "peppery"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pepperish"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ish",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pepper",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "pepper + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pepper + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pepperish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pepperish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pepperish (comparative more pepperish, superlative most pepperish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of peppery (“resembling or characteristic of pepper, the spice”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peppery",
          "peppery#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "resembling or characteristic of pepper, the spice",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "peppery"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              48,
              57
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2011, John Madson, Up on the River: People and Wildlife of the Upper Mississippi, page 221:",
          "text": "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, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of peppery (“having a fiery temperament”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peppery",
          "peppery#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "having a fiery temperament",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "peppery"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pepperish"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pepperish meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.