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spice

SubstantivVerbSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen

  • //spaɪs//

Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food.

    Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.

  2. 2

    The quality of being spicy.

    What spice level do you want for your pad thai? I recommend mild.

  3. 3

    übertragenAppeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.

    variety is the spice of life

    Honor, a^([sic]) 18-year-old high school student who thinks she has it more together than her fellow students and who looks to both Leslie and Bernie to provide friendship and spice in her life.

  4. 4

    A psychoactive neocannabinoid.

  5. 5

    Sweets, candy.

    Let's go daan to t'spice shop an see what they've i stock

  6. 6

    veraltetSpecies; kind.

  7. 7

    A characteristic touch or taste; smack; flavour.

    "I'm not going to promise anything after the perfectly fetid way you're running off," she retorted. "Still, it's pretty obvious that I shall stay here and do what I can for poor Geoffrey in the circumstances." It occurred to the hearer […] that there was a spice of "It is my duty and I will" in this praiseworthy resolve which fell short of the ecstatic resolution of the Saturday Nora.

  8. 8

    An aromatic odor.

  9. 9

    Erotic or pornographic material, usually in written form; smut.

  10. 10

    An additional input parameter used as a secondary, non-secret key in the Hasty Pudding cipher.

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Italic *spekjō Latin speciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Late Latin speciēs Old French espicebor. Anglo-Norman specebor. Middle English spice English spice Inherited from Middle English spice, from Old French espice (modern épice), from Late Latin speciēs (“spice, good, ware”), from Latin speciēs (“kind, sort”). Doublet of species.

Verb

  1. 1

    To add spice or spices to; season.

    Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.

  2. 2

    To spice up.

    City Men is pretty much the same kind of sentimental comedy spiced with wisecracks as The Women, a disappointingly familiar genre.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Auch eine Form von spouseplural of spouse

Herkunft

Formed by analogy with lice and mice as the plurals of louse and mouse. First attested use Christopher Morley in “Morley's Magnum” (1935). Made popular by Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love (1973).

Formen

Plural
spices
Präteritum
spiced
Partizip II
spiced
Partizip I
spicing
3. Person Singular
spices
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