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present participle and gerund of pepper examples
plural pepperings
(literally, figuratively) A light sprinkling or spray, as with black pepper specks, bullets, or questions. quotations examples
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