Peppered

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pepper \Pep"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peppered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Peppering}.]
     1. To sprinkle or season with pepper.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows,


        upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or
        wounds; as, to pepper him with buckshot. "I have peppered
        two of them." "I am peppered, I warrant, for this world."
        --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "peppered":
     apertured, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, crible, dotted, dotty,
     dusted, fenestrated, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked,
     freckled, freckly, holey, honeycombed, like Swiss cheese, macular,
     maculate, maculated, patchy, perforate, perforated, pierced,
     pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot,
     powdered, punctated, riddled, shot through, slotted, spangled,
     spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splattered,
     splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded,
     windowed