spicy
/ˈspʌɪsi
/adjective (spicier, spiciest)
1Flavoured with or fragrant with spice: pasta in a spicy tomato sauce...
- This was braised cubes of lamb in a spicy coconut sauce with fragrant rice for €15.50.
- A little bowl of diablo sauce, a spicy and fresh tomato salsa, came on the side.
- To top it off, the skewers were presented on a plate with potatoes, sour cream, and a spicy tomato sauce.
Synonyms
piquant, tangy, peppery, hot, picante;
spiced, seasoned, savoury;
tasty, flavoursome, flavourful, well seasoned, strongly flavoured, zesty, strong, sharp, pungent
rare sapid, flavorous
1.1Exciting or entertaining, especially through being mildly indecent: spicy jokes and suggestive songs
Synonyms
entertaining, colourful, lively, spirited, exciting, piquant, zesty, zestful;
risqué, racy, salty, scandalous, ribald, suggestive, titillating, bawdy, naughty, salacious, off colour, indelicate, immodest, dirty, smutty
informal raunchy, juicy
British informal saucy, fruity
North American informal gamy
Derivatives
spicily
- The fish is fresh and spicily dressed with avocado and sweet, hot soy sauce topped with a crown of sesame seaweed salad.
- His live music spicily punctuates a play that, while preaching a sexual and racial sermon, adopts much more than a simple missionary position.
- A similar nuts-and-bolts problem mars Bombay Dreams, a musical spicily scored by the Bollywood composer A. R. Rahman, who has sold 200 million albums worldwide.
spiciness
/ noun ...- On the palate it has an overpowering spiciness.
- The ingredients and spiciness vary from region to region.
- It is this spiciness that is most discussed when it comes to Indian food.
Rhymes
- phone phreaking
- phoner
- phoner-in
- phone sex
- phonesis
- phone soliciting
- phone solicitor
- phonesthematic
- phonestheme
- phonesthemic
- phonesthesia
- phonesthesis
- phonesthetics
- phone tag
- phone tap
- phone-tapper
- phone tapping
- phonetic
- phonetical
- phonetically
- phonetician
- phoneticism
- phoneticist
- phoneticization
- phoneticize