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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



... little path, no longer graveled, wound through the wild woodland. Here and there a boulder blocked the way; the undergrowth became dense; great clumps of fern and rhododendron sent out their heavy, rank odors. Now and again the spicy scent of warm pines and cedars prepared the ear for the gentle, ceaseless rustle of their stiff foliage; little scufflings and chitterings at the ground level told of wood-people wakened by the presence of ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... from the Bank to Mandalay; An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells: "If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else." No! you won't 'eed nothin' else But them spicy garlic smells, An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells; On the road to ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... Mrs. Rabbit's home for many days found it hard to get by her door, for such spicy, nice-smelling odors as came through the open ...
— Sandman's Goodnight Stories • Abbie Phillips Walker

... the Boshman, and I returned to the home of the mage. He stood before us, a tall thin figure enwrapped in yellowish, strange garments, of a singular and perfumed character—spicy in fact—which produced upon me a feeling which I cannot attempt to describe, and which I can only vaguely hint at by saying that the whole form conveyed to me the notion ...
— HE • Andrew Lang

... the best books about Japan. He would "mug it up," and get some answers off pat to the leading questions. The erudite one promptly lent him some volumes by Lafcadio Hearn and Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysantheme. He read the novel first of all. Rather spicy, ...
— Kimono • John Paris


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