spice

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 spīs

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food. countable,uncountable
    — Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
  2. plural of spouse form-of,humorous,nonce-word,plural,usually
  3. The quality of being spicy. uncountable
    — What spice level do you want for your pad thai? I recommend mild.
  4. Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging. figuratively,uncountable
    — variety is the spice of life
  5. A psychoactive neocannabinoid. uncountable
  6. Sweets, candy. Yorkshire,uncountable
    — Let's go daan to t'spice shop an see what they've i stock
  7. Species; kind. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  8. A characteristic touch or taste; smack; flavour. countable,uncountable
    — "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.
  9. An aromatic odor. countable,uncountable
  10. Erotic or pornographic material, usually in written form; smut. Internet,uncountable
  11. An additional input parameter used as a secondary, non-secret key in the Hasty Pudding cipher. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To add spice or spices to; season. transitive
    — Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.
  2. To spice up. transitive
    — City Men is pretty much the same kind of sentimental comedy spiced with wisecracks as The Women, a disappointingly familiar genre.

词形变化

spices plural spices present,singular,third-person spicing participle,present spiced participle,past spiced past

词汇关系

上位词
seasoning
衍生词
allspice bespice golden spice hunger is the best spice king of spices mixed spice Montreal steak spice pondspice pudding spice pumpkin pie spice pumpkin-pie spice pumpkin spice pumpkin-spice latte pumpkin spice latte queen of spices spice bag spiceberry spicebox spice brown spicebush spice drop spice fiend spice finch spiceful spicehead spicehouse spiceland spiceless spicelike spicenut spice rack spicery spicewise spicewood spiciness spicy sugar and spice sugar and spice and everything nice table spice overspice spice up
相关词
five-spice powder herbs and spices spicy tooth variety is the spice of life
并列词
herb

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Italic *spekjō
Late Latin speciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Late 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.
词源 2
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).
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