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Spice vs Piquancy - What's the difference?

spice | piquancy |

As nouns the difference between spice and piquancy

is that spice is plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food while piquancy is the degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.

As a verb spice

is to add spice or spices to.

spice

English

(wikipedia spice)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) espice (modern .

Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
  • (figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
  • (uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
  • (obsolete) Species; kind.
  • * Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
    • Abstain you from all evil spice .
  • * Sir T. Elyot
    • 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.
    Hyponyms
    * See also
    Hypernyms
    * seasoning
    Coordinate terms
    * herb
    Derived terms
    * allspice * five-spice powder * herbs and spices * spiceberry * spicebush * spicery * spice up * spiciness * spicy * spicy tooth * variety is the spice of life

    Verb

    (spic)
  • To add spice or spices to.
    • Derived terms
    * spice up

    Etymology 2

    Formed by analogy with (mice) as the plural of (mouse) by .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (nonce word)

    • References

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular plurals ----

    piquancy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.