Spicy
['spaɪsɪ] or ['spaɪsi]
Definition
(superl.) Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.
(superl.) Producing, or abounding with, spices.
(superl.) Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Aromatic, fragrant.[2]. Pungent, sharp, piquant, pointed.
Typist: Rachel
Definition
adj. producing or abounding with spices: fragrant: pungent: piquant pointed racy: showy.—adv. Spī′cily.—n. Spī′ciness.
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Examples
- When one side or the other had written any particularly spicy dispatch, news of it was sure to slip out. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tell her to make it short and spicy, and never mind the moral. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Late we envied their abodes, their spicy groves, fertile plains, and abundant loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I find that spicy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With vicious relish he brought up the most spicy current continental historical falsehoods--than which nothing can be conceived more offensive. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A spicy boudoir, this, says Mr. Bucket, who feels in a manner furbished up in his French by the blow of the morning. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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