Dictionary
pep•per•y
Pronunciation: (pep'u-rē), [key]—
adj.
1. full of or tasting like pepper; hot; pungent.
2. of, pertaining to, or resembling pepper.
3. sharp or stinging:
a peppery speech.
4. easily angered; bad-tempered; irritable; irascible:
the peppery leader of a political faction. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.