adj. (common).—1.  Racy; FULL-FLAVOURED (q.v.); SMUTTY (q.v.); NUTTY (q.v.). 2. = showy, handsome, SMART (q.v.).

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  1844.  Puck, 14.

        The milliners’ hearts he did trepan,
My SPICY, swell small-college man.

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  1868.  WHYTE-MELVILLE, The White Rose, I. xiii. Bless’d if there isn’t Snipe … there’s a drummer holding his nag. What a SPICY chestnut it is!

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  1869.  LEVER, Rent in a Cloud, 58. A SPICY bit of scandal.

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  1897.  MARSHALL, Pomes, 88. Their jokelets more SPICY than witty.

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  3.  (venery).—JUICY (q.v.): of women.

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