ethnic slur Offensive term for persons of Latin American descent.

synoniemen: spick, spik.

Nederlands: Spik, Iberiër, Spanjaard, Spanjool
Pools: Latynoamerykanin, Latynos

Completely neat and clean:
— A spick-and-span kitchen.
— Their spic red-visored caps.

synoniemen: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless.

Pools: przeczysty

Aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative.

Roget 393: condiment, seasoning, sauce, spice, relish, appetizer.    [Condiments] salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante [Fr.]; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar^†, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb^†, pimento.    [capsicum peppers] capsicum, red pepper, chili peppers, cayenne.    nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, oregano, cloves, fennel.    [herbs] pot herbs, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, marjoram.    [fragrant woods and gums] frankincense, balm, myrrh.    [from pods] paprika.    [from flower stigmas] saffron.    [from roots] ginger, turmeric.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 41: mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion^†; commixion^†, intermixture, alloyage^†, matrimony; junction etc. 43; combination etc. 48; miscegenation.    impregnation; infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion; infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation; etc. 228 adulteration, sophistication.    [Thing mixed] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon.    [Compound resulting from mixture] alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow^†, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid [Lat.], miscellany, ambigu^†, medley, mess, hotchpot^†, pasticcio^†, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble etc. (disorder) 59; salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum [Lat.], gallimaufry, olla-podrida^†, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic etc. (variegation) 440.    half-blood, half-caste.    mulatto; terceron^†, quarteron^†, quinteron^† &c.; quadroon, octoroon; griffo^†, zambo^†; cafuzo^†; Eurasian; fustee^†, fustie^†; griffe, ladino^†, marabou, mestee^†, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule [Lat.]; catalo^†; cross, hybrid, mongrel.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, insignificance (unimportance) 643; mediocrity, moderation.    small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight^†, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau^†, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet^†, flitter, gobbet^†, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive^†; snip, snippet; snick^†, snack, snatch, slip, scrag^†; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.    nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction etc. (part) 51; drop in the ocean.    animalcule etc. 193.    trifle etc. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.    finiteness, finite quantity.    ... meer laten zien

Any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food.

Nederlands: kruid, specerij
Pools: przyprawy korzenne

The property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored.

synoniemen: spicery, spiciness.

Pools: pikantność

Make more interesting or flavorful:
— Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer.

synoniem: spice up.

Roget 393: season, spice, flavor, spice up etc. (render pungent) 392.   

Roget 392: be pungent etc. adj.; bite the tongue.    render pungent etc. adj.; season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil.    smoke, chew, take snuff.    ... meer laten zien

Add herbs or spices to.

synoniemen: spice up, zest.