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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



... festivities peculiar to that joyous season, which have rashly been pronounced obsolete, by those who draw their experience merely from city life. I had seen the great Yule log put on the fire on Christmas Eve, and the wassail bowl sent round, brimming with its spicy beverage. I had heard carols beneath my window by the choristers of the neighboring village, who went their rounds about the ancient Hall at midnight, according to immemorial custom. We had mummers and mimers ...
— Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • Washington Irving
... No spicy fragrance while they grow, But crushed, or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy ...
— Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells
... five cents, the cup of coffee five, and the little "drop cakes," sweet and spicy, were two for five. Every man spent fifteen cents, some of them more; and many took away small cakes in paper bags, ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... most luxuriant crop of weeds had sprung up within the edifice, and hid the scattered fragments of the wall. Grass and weeds grew in the windows, and in all the crevices of the stone, climbing, step by step, till a tuft of yellow flowers was waving on the highest peak of the gable. Some spicy herb diffused a pleasant odor through the ruin. A verdant heap of vegetation had covered the hearth of the second floor, clustering on the very spot where the huge logs had mouldered to glowing coals, and flourished beneath the broad flue, which had so often puffed the smoke ...
— Old Ticonderoga, A Picture of The Past - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... The spicy scent of sweet-currant blossoms hung in the dewy air that wrapped one of the darkened village houses. From a syringa bush before another, as they moved on, a denser perfume stole out with the wild ...
— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells


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