Adjective
- 1. piquant, savory, savoury, spicy, zesty, tasty (vs. tasteless)
- usage: having an agreeably pungent taste
- 2. hot, spicy, tasty (vs. tasteless)
- usage: producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves; "hot salsa"; "jalapeno peppers are very hot"
- 3. blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy, sexy (vs. unsexy)
- usage: 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"
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