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peppering en · NOUN
Meanings
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(figuratively, literally) A light sprinkling or spray, as with black pepper specks, bullets, or questions.
Besides, the advantage sought is but a cowardly advantage; for when all is said, the pepperings from the small shot of female eloquence are great only to little men.
1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume 60, page 57:
Forms
peppering en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of pepper