[ UK /spˈa‍ɪsi/ ]
[ US /ˈspaɪsi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
    I like my chili extra spicy
    hot salsa
    jalapeno peppers are very hot
    a spicy sauce
  2. suggestive of sexual impropriety
    naughty words
    a juicy scandal
    a blue movie
    spicy gossip
    he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
    a risque story
    blue jokes
    a naughty wink
    racy anecdotes
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How To Use spicy In A Sentence

  • The side dish the day I visited was a simple mixed olive salad, a mélange of black and green olives with spicy oil.
  • In fact, it should not recommend either, since the spicy salami, bocconcini and tomato panino is too stingy on fillings.
  • It contains fried tofu, mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, onion and squash all simmered in a spicy sauce and sprinkled with scallions and sesame. Bento #120: Korean stew « Were rabbits
  • The kimchee is killer and the spicy fish soup is perfect for when you have a cold. PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er (& Esca Chef) “David Pasternack”… PLUS another book giveaway! | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • I am lobbying pretty heavily for a spicy cranberry jelly from a jar.
  • Have you ever innocently bitten into a chunk of cayenne pepper in a spicy stir-fry?
  • I'd rather have a sliver of prosciutto or a wheel of spicy sausage than neutral, inoffensive chicken any day.
  • The shrimp come freeze - dried, and the spicy cocktail sauce as a powder.
  • Far too spicy, too sweet and not as moist as it should be. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other major constituents include limonene (lemony), thymol (thyme-like), cadinene (green-like) and germacrene (spicy and woody). Sechuan Buttons: The Taste of Electricity
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