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Spicy   /spˈaɪsi/   Listen
adjective
Spicy  adj.  (compar. spicier; superl. spiciest)  
1.
Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes. "The spicy nut-brown ale." "Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales."
2.
Producing, or abounding with, spices. "In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew."
3.
Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.
Synonyms: Aromatic; fragrant; smart; pungent; pointed; keen. See Racy.





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"Spicy" Quotes from Famous Books



... dullness—learned dullness and ignorant dullness. We think the latter preferable, for it is apt to be more spicy. You cannot measure the length of a man's brain, nor the width of his heart, nor the extent of his usefulness by the size of ...
— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage
... aroma of the bark of various trees and shrubs, the spicy qualities of the foliage and seeds of other plants; the intense acridity; the bitterness; the narcotic, the poisonous principle in woody and herbaceous ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... gifts of scented sandalwood, And labdanum, and cassia-bud, With spicy spoils of Araby And camel-loads of ivory And heavy cloths that glanced and shone With inwrought pearl and beryl-stone She ...
— Dreams and Dust • Don Marquis
... which last only an hour or so after daybreak, and was charged with fine sea-flavors and the delicate breath of dewy meadow-land. Everything appeared to exhale a fragrance; even the weather-beaten sign of "J. Tibbets & Son, West India Goods & Groceries," it seemed to Lynde, emitted an elusive spicy odor. ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... there were grapes that hid their brightness under a grey dust, Then gushed thrilling, purple blood over the fire; And enamelled crab-apples that tricked with their fragrance But were bitter to taste. And there were spicy plums and ill-shaped quinces, And long string beans floating in pans of clear water Like slim, green fishes. And there was fish itself, Salted, silver herring from ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse


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