You can spice up your meal with chili powder or you can spice up your room with a disco ball! Spice is usually a flavoring for food, but you can add spice to other things by jazzing them up.
Species; kind.
Noun
the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored
Noun
any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food
Noun
aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative
Verb
make more interesting or flavorful; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer"
Verb
add herbs or spices to
n.
Species; kind.
n.
A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic
and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice,
ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces,
pickles, etc.
n.
Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a
thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which
gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small
quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief.
v. t.
To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic
or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to
spice one's words with wit.
v. t.
To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.
v. t.
To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.
Spice
The spices of penance ben three.
Abstain you from all evil spice.
Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices. The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.2.
Hast thou aught in thy purse [bag] any hot spices?3.
So much of the will, with a spice of the willful.
Spice
She 'll receive thee, but will spice thy bread With flowery poisons.2.
In the spiced Indian air, by night.3.
Species; kind.
To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season;
Usage Examples
We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.
I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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Other Usage ExamplesLovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal.
Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.
Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.