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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Hot; pungent; peppery.

Swift.

ppr.

Sprinkling with pepper; pelting.

a. Hot; pungent; angry.

peppering

peppering ‎(plural pepperings)

A light spray, as of bullets.
- 1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (volume 60, page 57)
  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.