adjective (spicier, spiciest)
1 (of food) having a strong taste because spices have been used to flavour it:
spicy chicken wings
2 (informal) (of a story, piece of news, etc.) exciting and slightly shocking:
spicy stories about the sex lives of the stars
spiciness noun [U]:
the spiciness of the food
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for spicy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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