peppy
/ˈpɛpi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tree of species Agonis flexuosa, commonly known as Western Australian peppermint or peppermint tree.
Australian usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Cedric was not feeling peppy when he woke up two hours before dawn."
- ""Busselton for example, you used to have these quarter-acre blocks with one big house on it and lots of peppy trees in the backyard. And now they've got three houses and no peppy trees," she said."
- "City engineering and works services director Oliver Darby told the Times three of the peppies had been lopped extensively and must now be removed along with the non-native, but transplantation of the remaining tree was being investigated."
Etymology
From pep + -y.