pieperig, adjective

/ˈpipərəx/
Forms:
Also pipperag.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, weak, frail.
colloquial
Feeble, weak; finnicky, complaining.
1970 R.S. Gibson Informant, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo)That girl is too pipperag for my liking (finnicky).
1970 M. Wolfaardt Informant, StilfonteinHe is just pieperig (weak and sickly).
1971 A. Scholefield Young Masters 6‘You too...’ He searched for the word, and, not finding it in English, chose the Afrikaans word for weak and sickly. ‘You too..pieperig’.
1989 B. Krige in Femina July 72In the forefront of the fray is a mild-mannered woman who formed her own ratepayers association because she found the existing ones pieperig...‘They really have some fuddy duddies,’ pronounced Mrs Shaw, now in her mid-60’s. ‘They’re so darned pieperig.’
Feeble, weak; finnicky, complaining.
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