pepperminty
3.5
A strong, cool taste and smell like mint
- adjective
- /ˌpɛpərˈmɪnti/
:
mentolado
- She added pepperminty leaves to the dessert, enhancing its fresh and cool flavor.
Examples
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Camphorlike, vinegary, ethereal, putrid, pepperminty, musky, and floral.
Fiction book (1997) -
The pepperminty scent of the candy filled the entire room, making everyone's mouth water.
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After sipping the pepperminty tea, I felt a refreshing burst of flavor that calmed me.
Synonyms
minty
vspepperminty
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1.3
Tasting or smelling like mint
refers to one specific cooling herb variety rather than the general one
mint-scented
vspepperminty
3.3
Having the fresh smell of mint
includes both taste and smell rather than only scent
How Minty
Surface Forms
pepperminty positive
Morphology
pepperminty = peppermint (transparent) = peppermint + mint + y
The meaning 'having the qualities of peppermint' is directly derived from the base word 'peppermint' with the addition of the suffix '-y'.
Etymology
Pepperminty comes from peppermint, which joins pepper ('sharp, spicy') and mint ('cool herb'). So pepperminty means having the cool, sharp taste or smell of peppermint.