Antonyms for peppering


Grammar : Verb
Spell : pep-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛp ər


Definition of peppering

Origin :
  • Old English pipor, from an early West Germanic borrowing of Latin piper "pepper," from Greek piperi, probably (via Persian) from Middle Indic pippari, from Sanskrit pippali "long pepper." The Latin word is the source of German Pfeffer, Italian pepe, French poivre, Old Church Slavonic pipru, Lithuanian pipiras, Old Irish piobhar, Welsh pybyr, etc. Application to fruits of the capsicum family (unrelated, originally native of tropical America) is 16c.
  • As in intersperse : verb scatter
  • As in pelt : verb beat; throw hard
  • As in punctuate : verb lay stress on
  • As in riddle : verb perforate, permeate
  • As in season : verb flavor food
  • As in spot : verb mark, stain
  • As in sprinkle : verb scatter, disseminate
  • As in throw : verb propel something through the air
  • As in mottle : verb speckle
  • As in speckle : verb dot
  • As in dot : verb make spot(s)
  • As in flavor : verb add seasoning
Example sentences :
  • He talked of peppering his people as I would talk of peppering a capon.
  • Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
  • Maybe what she said to Pa made him go west after peppering your burglar.
  • Extract from : « The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy » by George W. Peck
  • It was coming down in torrents, peppering the roof and the windows.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow, Second Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • That must be the identical rock he squatted under while the Bushmen were peppering him.
  • Extract from : « Renshaw Fanning's Quest » by Bertram Mitford
  • Life is peppering me with good things this year, I could not be more grateful.
  • Extract from : « She Buildeth Her House » by Will Comfort
  • Come this way, Sue, and Luke, do the best you can at peppering the canoe in front of us!
  • Extract from : « Defending the Island » by James Otis
  • Followed such a peppering of that cliff as it had never had before.
  • Extract from : « Tenting To-night » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • And all these nice people who have been peppering us with shot thought we were the dynamiters.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Was Thursday » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Morel put up his umbrella, and took pleasure from the peppering of the drops thereon.
  • Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence
  • Dr. Solander, seeing this, gave him a peppering with small Shott, which sent him off and made them retire a Second time.
  • Extract from : « Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World » by James Cook

Synonyms for peppering

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