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pepperonied en · ADJ

Etymology

From pepperoni + -ed.

Meanings

1. Flavoured with pepperoni.
   • […] Sardinian pasta (malloreddus), a highly pepperonied spaghetti with mussels, game birds of all sorts and strong Sardinian wine. 1967, Ventury, page 9:
   • Today, everyone loves the slice: thick or thin, red or white, plain or pepperonied, handmade or door-delivered. 1998 January/February, Leslie Blanchard, “Slice of life”, in Maxim, volume 1, number 5, page 120:
   • Ricota’s standard cup-and-char is one of the less pepperonied pizzas you’ll find, just six little concaves, but each one glistening and upturned with that perfectly executed fraction of an inch of crispy black rim. 2018, Arthur Bovino, Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in “Nickel City”, The Countryman Press, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN:
   • Actually, the four lads didn’t “put away” their pizza — they stuffed, slammed, rammed, pushed and prodded those pieces of pepperonied cheese and pasta down their throats in an effort to win the Pizza Delight/CFGO Pizza Eating contest at the company’s Britannia branch Sunday. 1979 February 19, Argyle McLeod, “Cheesy contest a piece of cake”, in Ottawa Journal, 94th year 59, page 3, column 4:
   • If you crave Italian food under the stars, the Pizza Gallery Restaurant, 2059 Madison, has an outdoor annex where you can consume pepperonied pizza pies to your heart’s content. 1978 April 21, Anne B. McDonald, “Memphis After Dark”, in Memphis Press-Scimitar, 98th year, number 143, Memphis, Tenn., section “ShowTime”, page 9, column 1:

Forms

Antonyms

pepperoni-less