pepperonied

English

Etymology

From pepperoni +‎ -ed.

Adjective

pepperonied (comparative more pepperonied, superlative most pepperonied)

1. Flavoured with pepperoni.
   • 1967, Ventury, page 9:

     […] Sardinian pasta (malloreddus), a highly pepperonied spaghetti with mussels, game birds of all sorts and strong Sardinian wine.

   • 1978 April 21, Anne B. McDonald, “Memphis After Dark”, in Memphis Press-Scimitar, 98th year, number 143, Memphis, Tenn., section “ShowTime”, page 9, column 1:

     If you crave Italian food under the stars, the Pizza Gallery Restaurant, 2059 Madison, has an outdoor annex where you can consume pepperonied pizza pies to your heart’s content.

   • 1979 February 19, Argyle McLeod, “Cheesy contest a piece of cake”, in Ottawa Journal, 94th year 59, page 3, column 4:

     Actually, the four lads didn’t “put away” their pizza — they stuffed, slammed, rammed, pushed and prodded those pieces of pepperonied cheese and pasta down their throats in an effort to win the Pizza Delight/CFGO Pizza Eating contest at the company’s Britannia branch Sunday.

   • 1998 January/February, Leslie Blanchard, “Slice of life”, in Maxim, volume 1, number 5, page 120:

     Today, everyone loves the slice: thick or thin, red or white, plain or pepperonied, handmade or door-delivered.

   • 2018, Arthur Bovino, Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in “Nickel City”, The Countryman Press, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN:

     Ricota’s standard cup-and-char is one of the less pepperonied pizzas you’ll find, just six little concaves, but each one glistening and upturned with that perfectly executed fraction of an inch of crispy black rim.