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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



... times a cheery thing to go bowling along behind a spicy team, but especially so when traversing a wild and half-cultivated country, where everything around you is strange to the eye, and where the vastness of space conveys a feeling of grandeur; nor is it the less enjoyable when ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile! In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... like painted gauze curtains, we flashed suddenly out to open spaces purple-red with fireweed, and vast, flat stretches of tawny marshland swept with tides of colour, rainbow streaks of amethyst and rose-topaz. The Sound was within sight and smell. Salt perfume of ocean mingled with spicy fragrance from the sunburnt bayberry flung in thick ruglike masses upon bare gray rock, and azure veinings of the sea, stray among the marshes, made strong-growing water plants give out a tang that ...
— The Lightning Conductor Discovers America • C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel)
... as the compound, double-distilled essence of flatness is to be infused into the wassail-cup, it is he who will supply it!" thought the spicy damsel, with a bewitching shrug of the plump shoulder nearest him, while engaged in a lively play of words with a gentleman on her other hand. "What can possess Mabel to encourage him systematically in her decorous style, passes my powers of divination. Maybe she means to use ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... blinds were turned down: not a ray of light stole through them, only the spicy air. There was something solemn stalking in the entries, and all through the house. It seemed as if there was a corpse in ...
— Daisy's Necklace - And What Came of It • Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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