incandescent fingernails running down the back of your neck, suffusing your entire eating enjoyment in a marvelous, painful-but-oh-so-beautiful haze.

Some people seem to confuse it with BDSM.

Spi"cy (?), a. [Compar. Spicier (?); superl. Spiciest.] [From Spice.]

1.

Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.

"The spicy nut-brown ale."

Milton.

Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales. Pope.

2.

Producing, or abounding with, spices.

In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew. Dryden.

3.

Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.

Syn. -- Aromatic; fragrant; smart; pungent; pointed; keen. See Racy.

 

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