spicy
pronunciation
How to pronounce spicy in British English:
UK [ˈspaɪsi]
How to pronounce spicy in American English:
US [ˈspaɪsi]
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- Adjective:
- having an agreeably pungent taste
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers
Word Origin
- spicy (adj.)
- 1560s, from spice (n.) + -y (2). In reference to flowers, breezes, etc., "sweet-smelling," from 1640s. Figurative sense of "racy, salacious" dates from 1844. Related: Spiciness.
Example
- 1. Even in the pantheon of sichuan cuisine , this is one helluva spicy dish .
- 2. I swallow a few bites of spicy vegetables and scoop lentils with the naan .
- 3. At dusk , makeshift stalls in the market offered spicy raw papaya salad and fried mekong river catfish .
- 4. Until the quake , sichuan was best known for its spicy food and poverty .
- 5. As a result , there is a spicy component to the wines and notes of deep vanilla , star anise and black pepper .