Careful Words

peppered (?.)

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Retaliation. Line 112.

  I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.