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spicy is an adjective meaning "producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves". It carries 2 recorded senses.
suggestive of sexual impropriety
“a blue movie”
“blue jokes”
“he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details”
“a juicy scandal”
“a naughty wink”
“naughty words”
“racy anecdotes”
“a risque story”
“spicy gossip”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spicy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.