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Peppery vs Smarting - What's the difference?

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Peppery is a related term of smarting.


As adjectives the difference between peppery and smarting

is that peppery is having the taste of pepper while smarting is painful, sore.

As a verb smarting is

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As a noun smarting is

a sensation that smarts or stings.

peppery

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the taste of pepper.
  • Having a fiery temperament.
    • a peppery old Army major
  • *1884 ,
    • For I'm a peppery potentate, \ Who's little inclined his claim to bate, \ To fit the wit of a bit of a chit, \ And that's the long and the short of it!

    smarting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Painful, sore.
    • My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
  • (figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that smarts or stings.
  • * (Thomas Halyburton)
    • Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.

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