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Spiciness

noun
1.
The property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored.  Synonyms: spice, spicery.
2.
Behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.  Synonyms: gaminess, raciness, ribaldry.






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"Spiciness" Quotes from Famous Books



... touched the trees in the morning when the hoarfrost had disappeared, they inserted tubes of bark, rolled tightly, and caught the sap in the troughs. Then they filled their kettles that swung over great fires, and the fragrance arising made the forests sweet with a peculiar spiciness. It was a grand time for the children, who snatched some of the liquid out of the kettle on a birch-bark ladle, and ran into the woods for it to cool. Pani ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas

... ditch-bedevilled donkey-trails during the day, may look spicy, and even romantic, from a distance; but when one wakes up in a cold shiver about 1.30A.M. and realizes that several hours of wretchedness are before him, his waking thoughts are apt to be anything but thoughts complimentary of the spiciness of the situation. Inshallah! fortune will favor me with better dues to- morrow; and if not to-morrow, then the next ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... reader at arm's length, invites and repels at the same time, piques one by his spiciness, and exasperates by his opinionatedness. You want to see his bean-field, but know you would be an intruder. He might even tell you to your face that he was happiest the mornings when nobody called. He likes to advise and berate, but at long range. Speaking of these two writers, ...
— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... out by an old wood road. A cool spiciness flowed though the green aisles, and as the tiny donkey struck into a dog trot, the man striding easily at her head, a far-away cock crowed shrilly ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon



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